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#1 User is offline   jimmywine81 

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Posted 28 January 2008 - 12:03 PM

when I search for stuff the results show up but when I click the links it takes me to other things

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Posted 28 January 2008 - 12:07 PM

Hello,

Are you saying that for example I typed sky news into a search engine and clicked on the appropriate link it would then take me to some other random site?
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Posted 28 January 2008 - 12:11 PM

yes that is what it is doing

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Posted 28 January 2008 - 12:16 PM

It could be a couple of things, I had the same problem a week ago on another system, updating the hosts file solved the problem for me.
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm half way down on the left there is a tool called hostsman. download this and let it update the file.
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Posted 28 January 2008 - 12:25 PM

ok so I fig. there is a button that says continue and it takes me to what I want but ifI dont push it sends me to other search engines,Im goona try host man thanks

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Posted 28 January 2008 - 02:54 PM

Ok, let us know how it goes, also What security products do you have? you could have an infection.
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  Posted 28 January 2008 - 03:03 PM

if you have not already done so;suggest you take a restore point , then download, fully update reboot and run each of these on full deep scans ; you may well have an infection there
spybot

http://www.spybot.info/en/download/index.html
superantispyware free for home users;
http://www.superantispyware.com/superantis...efreevspro.html
asquared
http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/

these may take some time to run so give them a chance; see what if anything they find?

Which windowes version are you on;what antivirus program are you running, when did you last update it and when did you last update windows?

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