Wednesday, November 25, 2009

When I try to search with yahoo or google, my results are redirected.?

I did a virus scan and a spyware scan both were showed no virus or spyware. What can I do? What is doing this?



When I try to search with yahoo or google, my results are redirected.?microsoft support



Sounds like you're using Internet Explorer and you've picked up a hijacker. Most virus checkers don't pick these up, I'm afraid. The good news is that they only infect IE and they're mostly easy to get rid off. Mostly.



Option 1: Install Firefox. Problem solved, and it'll unlikely you'll have to worry about this ever again.



Option 2: Download a copy of "HijackThis", there's a link for it below (it's free). Have it scan your system, it will report all the things that have installed themselves in your copy of IE. A lot will be stuff that you will recognize.....Flash, Google taskbar, Acrobat Reader etc. Anything you don't recognize, nuke. Pretty much the worst you can do is accidentally nuke an IE add-on, like internet messanger, in which case just re-install it. HijackThis will also give you hints as to what each entry is, so you should be looking for anything that redirects your browser through a proxy. If you see any raw IP addresses (i.e. anything that consists of 4 numbers like "209.34.183.1) then there's a high probability that that's your culprit. Once you've done all this reboot your machine immediately.



If you have a particularly nasty hijacker then it might have set up something to be set up to reinstall itself if you remove it. If this is the case then you'll have to reboot in safe mode, do all this again and reboot back into normal mode.



Good luck!



When I try to search with yahoo or google, my results are redirected.?windows live mail internet explorer



Install virus protection.
a ghost.....woooooooooooooooooooooooo



Note: Mark F is correct to recommend "HijackThis". Great software for detecting those annoying hijackers. And for malware and spyware, get LavaSoft products (free) http://www.lavasoftusa.com/index.php
that a hijacker



it hijacks your browser.



try deleting some IE programs



to do this.



run internet explorer then go to



-tools



-internet options



-programs



-manage add ons



-you will see the programs for your Internet explorer delete some of them just read the descriptions.
which anti virus your are using right now?



Is it license copy or just trial version, if it is license copy or free version upgrade it through internet then again scan ur PC.

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