clinking a searched link brings up further search terms...

[Brad Pears]

Hi there...



I can't seem to find a solution to this particular issue. I am running IE8

on a Windows XP SP3 machine. In almost every instance whenever I perform a

search - whether it be google or bing or whoever, I get my list of matches

no probs, but if I click on one of the searched links, instead of being

taken diretly to wherever that link is supposed to take me, I am being taken

to another page containing a bunch of other "related" search terms

instead - sometimes it's the same company "hijaaking" me but overall I get

many different companies such as www.luckyresults .com, even "Microsoft

Technet" sometimes, "searchoye.com", "11picks.com" etc.. In order to get to

the link I want, I wind up having to copy and paste the URL listed in teh

google/bing search record (if the URL is not too long).



I am running both a Symantec Corprate AV 10.1 client as well as Spybot

Search and Destroy. On full scans, neither of these have turned up anything

that has prevented this from happening. Any research I have done has not

turned up anything really tangible.



It's got to be some sort of "spyware/adware" etc... I have looked in the IE

tools and addons - I can;t see anything there either... This also happens

in IE 7 too, as I recently upgraded to ver 8.



Any ideas??



Thanks, Brad

 

[Don Varnau]

Hi,

Try the Windows Live Safety Scanner

http://onecare.live.com/site/en-US/default.htm



Follow that with (free version) Malwarebytes Anti-Malware

http://www.malwarebytes.org/



If there is *any* reason to suspect that these tools didn't remove all

malware, visit one of these sites, register and follow the protocol.



Aumha:

http://www.aumha.net/viewforum.php?f=30

Start at http://www.aumha.net/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=4075



SpywareHammer:

http://spywarehammer.com/simplemach...PSESSID=3vhdc3qhmgg1usn83p2ctbss45&board=10.0

Read:

http://spywarehammer.com/simplemach...PSESSID=3vhdc3qhmgg1usn83p2ctbss45&topic=87.0

then

http://spywarehammer.com/simplemach...PSESSID=3vhdc3qhmgg1usn83p2ctbss45&topic=88.0



Bleeping Computer:

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/forum22.html

-

Hope this helps,

Don

[MS MVP- IE]





"Brad Pears" wrote in message

news:O$cc7fXuKHA.2072@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

> Hi there...

>

> I can't seem to find a solution to this particular issue. I am running IE8

> on a Windows XP SP3 machine. In almost every instance whenever I perform a

> search - whether it be google or bing or whoever, I get my list of matches

> no probs, but if I click on one of the searched links, instead of being

> taken diretly to wherever that link is supposed to take me, I am being

taken

> to another page containing a bunch of other "related" search terms

> instead - sometimes it's the same company "hijaaking" me but overall I get

> many different companies such as www.luckyresults .com, even "Microsoft

> Technet" sometimes, "searchoye.com", "11picks.com" etc.. In order to get

to

> the link I want, I wind up having to copy and paste the URL listed in teh

> google/bing search record (if the URL is not too long).

>

> I am running both a Symantec Corprate AV 10.1 client as well as Spybot

> Search and Destroy. On full scans, neither of these have turned up

anything

> that has prevented this from happening. Any research I have done has not

> turned up anything really tangible.

>

> It's got to be some sort of "spyware/adware" etc... I have looked in the

IE

> tools and addons - I can;t see anything there either... This also

happens

> in IE 7 too, as I recently upgraded to ver 8.

>

> Any ideas??

>

> Thanks, Brad

>

>

 

[Brad Pears]

Thanks Don... I'll give those a try!



Brad

"Don Varnau" wrote in message

news:%23GKm99YuKHA.732@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

> Hi,

> Try the Windows Live Safety Scanner

> http://onecare.live.com/site/en-US/default.htm

>

> Follow that with (free version) Malwarebytes Anti-Malware

> http://www.malwarebytes.org/

>

> If there is *any* reason to suspect that these tools didn't remove all

> malware, visit one of these sites, register and follow the protocol.

>

> Aumha:

> http://www.aumha.net/viewforum.php?f=30

> Start at http://www.aumha.net/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=4075

>

> SpywareHammer:

> http://spywarehammer.com/simplemach...PSESSID=3vhdc3qhmgg1usn83p2ctbss45&board=10.0

> Read:

> http://spywarehammer.com/simplemach...PSESSID=3vhdc3qhmgg1usn83p2ctbss45&topic=87.0

> then

> http://spywarehammer.com/simplemach...PSESSID=3vhdc3qhmgg1usn83p2ctbss45&topic=88.0

>

> Bleeping Computer:

> http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/forum22.html

> -

> Hope this helps,

> Don

> [MS MVP- IE]

>

>

> "Brad Pears" wrote in message

> news:O$cc7fXuKHA.2072@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

>> Hi there...

>>

>> I can't seem to find a solution to this particular issue. I am running

>> IE8

>> on a Windows XP SP3 machine. In almost every instance whenever I perform

>> a

>> search - whether it be google or bing or whoever, I get my list of

>> matches

>> no probs, but if I click on one of the searched links, instead of being

>> taken diretly to wherever that link is supposed to take me, I am being

> taken

>> to another page containing a bunch of other "related" search terms

>> instead - sometimes it's the same company "hijaaking" me but overall I

>> get

>> many different companies such as www.luckyresults .com, even "Microsoft

>> Technet" sometimes, "searchoye.com", "11picks.com" etc.. In order to get

> to

>> the link I want, I wind up having to copy and paste the URL listed in teh

>> google/bing search record (if the URL is not too long).

>>

>> I am running both a Symantec Corprate AV 10.1 client as well as Spybot

>> Search and Destroy. On full scans, neither of these have turned up

> anything

>> that has prevented this from happening. Any research I have done has not

>> turned up anything really tangible.

>>

>> It's got to be some sort of "spyware/adware" etc... I have looked in the

> IE

>> tools and addons - I can;t see anything there either... This also

> happens

>> in IE 7 too, as I recently upgraded to ver 8.

>>

>> Any ideas??

>>

>> Thanks, Brad

>>

>>

>