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Crew
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Location: Ormond Beach, Florida | Subject: Computer help needed!
While trying to use my google search engine or for that matter any search engine, I am faced with the word cached and redirected to another site that has advertisements.
Let me gice you an example. I search for Social Security, I get redirected to another site. WHY?
SS, 377, 480, 337, SSN 596, SSBN 644, SS 347, SSBN 657, SSN 653 |
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Mess cooking
Posts: 46
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jerrydf - 2008-03-07 11:11 AM
While trying to use my google search engine or for that matter any search engine, I am faced with the word cached and redirected to another site that has advertisements.
Let me gice you an example. I search for Social Security, I get redirected to another site. WHY?
SS, 377, 480, 337, SSN 596, SSBN 644, SS 347, SSBN 657, SSN 653
I am not an expert but it looks like the browser is being hijacked?
Do you have Ad-Aware and Spybot Search and Destroy?
If not, download and run those. They are both free.....
Ad-Aware----> http://www.lavasoftusa.com/products/select_your_product.php
Spybot Search and Destroy ---> http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1269
Location: Hopewell Junction NY | Subject: RE: Computer help needed!
You may gain some insight and leads in resolving your SPYWARE problem here |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1405
Location: Houston, TX (Best state in the US) | Subject: RE: Computer help needed!
you may want to check your hosts file if you have one. For XP it is in c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc and has no extension. The file is simply called hosts. I used it to block all sorts of ads and download the updates every month or so.
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
The above site has the hosts file and instructions on how to download and use it. Also, sometimes you will want to go to some of the sites that are blocked, and they have a batch file you can turn on/off the hosts file.
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Plankowner
Posts: 9165
Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: RE: Computer help needed!
Get rid of Internet Exploder and use Firefox. Will probably solve most of your problems. ALSO. dump all your cache files Clean out your temp files and history files. M$ hides all kinds of those file all over your computer so they are next to impossible to find and get rid of.. Be careful of Ad Aware. it isn't always the "friend" you may think it is. Spybot Search & Destroy is good!
Only good thing with the coming of IE8 is they will FINALLY sign onto adhering to the W3C web standards. I always build my pages to the web standards and they never look right in M$IE. Billy finally got the word. But basically, if you use Firefox you will be using anything M$ puts out before M$ steals it and calls it their own.
Damn, hijacked my own post....
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Great Sage of the Sea
Posts: 561
Location: Belleview, Fl | Subject: RE: Computer help needed!
Thanks for the link Ric, found 21 yes that is twenty one problems with my puter and McAffee had just run along with another spyware program.... dem bastages even removed part of my firewall and had over ridden part of my anti-virus
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