Google search results being redirected to advertiser pages.

"Dana" <raff242 (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote

"Big Bill" <kruse (AT) cityscape (DOT) co.uk> wrote in message
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On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 11:45:01 -0800, "Dana" <raff242 (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote:

Recently, like yesterday my IE6 browser started to be redirected when
clicking on the search results from a google search.
You can see that after clicking on the google link returned from the
search
that you begin to go to the correct page, but then the redirection
happens
and you can see a new address appear on the bottom of the browser and
you
are redirected to a site that is mostly advertisements for something
related
to my search.
Been seeing quite a few pages with advertizer show up as being the
source.
The redirects do not happen if I use ask.com, or the search function
from
yahoo.
Anyone have any thoughts on this.


Your browser's been hijacked, I think. Try hijackthis at

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download3155.html

you might not be able to open the page. If you can't, try getting
Firefox from somewhere and then download it with that.

Tried Hijackthis, Adaware, Spybot, CWshredder, etc, and none of them find
anything, even when using the latest definitions. I find it odd that it is
only links from Google search reslults that give a redirection, and it is
not constant, IE some pages go to the expected page, while only some go to
a
redirected page. The redirected page is usually another search result page
with a list of links for items similar to my original search on Google.
The
one common element I see, is a logo for ADVERTIZER somewhere on the page
that I was redirected too. I tried searching the registry for that word,
and
no entries were found.

The program fixwareout seems to have solved the redirects, as I ran that
program and it discovered some bogus entries in the registry. The problem of
being redirected seems to have gone after deleting those keys.

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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups (AT) schestowitz (DOT) com> wrote:

__/ [ John Bokma ] on Saturday 16 September 2006 22:33 \__

Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups (AT) schestowitz (DOT) com> wrote:

disgnosis appears to intersect. It might also be worth upgrading the
Web browser by switching to something less permissive and exposed.
Opera seems like a good candidate.

My A doesn't work. Solution: use B. *sigh*

My experience is that it works much better by helping out people
fixing A, and let *them* decide if they want to switch to B by
themselves. People can make decisions, really.

*LOL*

I proposed closed-source so that you would not complain.

:-)

Besides, it
is a fair recommendation, which I assume you would support as well.

Some time ago maybe. But I have noticed that people take software very
personal (wink wink), so calling IE crap is like saying: you're crap.
Telling them to switch software is like telling that their partner
should dump them :-)

Better: fix the problem for them so you can also explain what caused it,
etc. and let them do the math. Sometimes they can use IE after that
without getting into problems often :-) And while doing so, you can
mutter: weird, I have never had this problem with the browser I use ;-)

Or, what I often prefer: I have no idea, I use Firefox, and hardly use
IE at all. Saves a lot of time, until they do switch to Firefox, and
then it's:

* John, I lost my bookmarks again, why???
* John, I have updated Firefox, and now it crashes everytime and
doesn't start at all
* John, Firefox doesn't render my MySpace page correctly, what should
I do?

I try to avoid advice as much as possible, because I might become a
helpdesk.

I try to avoid: A is broke, use B instead even more :-D.

And various scans could not remove what seems to me like 'poisoning'
of IE.

Yup, the poisoning often stops when people work as limited user. Sadly
there is a shit load of software that cripples when not ran as Admin or
doesn't even start up (Some Lite CSS editor I checked out recently had
that issue).

PS - Thanks for the support in that other thread. I hope you eliminate
that kook, but be warned that he has been abusing UseNet for about 10
years. They say it's Gary Steward who lives in the Hamptons.

:-D. I am sure he will be gone soon. I managed to get rid of DJM (with
help), and Xah Lee is also very very silent recenly :-D. (also with
help).


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On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 14:15:21 -0800, "Dana" <raff242 (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote:

"Big Bill" <kruse (AT) cityscape (DOT) co.uk> wrote in message
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On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 11:45:01 -0800, "Dana" <raff242 (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote:

Recently, like yesterday my IE6 browser started to be redirected when
clicking on the search results from a google search.
You can see that after clicking on the google link returned from the
search
that you begin to go to the correct page, but then the redirection
happens
and you can see a new address appear on the bottom of the browser and you
are redirected to a site that is mostly advertisements for something
related
to my search.
Been seeing quite a few pages with advertizer show up as being the
source.
The redirects do not happen if I use ask.com, or the search function from
yahoo.
Anyone have any thoughts on this.


Your browser's been hijacked, I think. Try hijackthis at

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download3155.html

you might not be able to open the page. If you can't, try getting
Firefox from somewhere and then download it with that.

Tried Hijackthis, Adaware, Spybot, CWshredder, etc, and none of them find
anything, even when using the latest definitions. I find it odd that it is
only links from Google search reslults that give a redirection, and it is
not constant, IE some pages go to the expected page, while only some go to a
redirected page. The redirected page is usually another search result page
with a list of links for items similar to my original search on Google. The
one common element I see, is a logo for ADVERTIZER somewhere on the page
that I was redirected too. I tried searching the registry for that word, and
no entries were found.

Weird, isn't it? Without having the machine in front of me I don't
know what to suggest. Can you put up screenshots?

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