Google Hijacked!

Recently some odd things have been happening with my PC.

My homepage was changed to some search page I have never been to. I am very diligent about not clicking yes to any pop up or download box, so this kinda shocked me. Who knows though, maybe late at night drunk I might have by accident so I didn't dwell on it.

Then twice today when I go to Google did a search for a store chain. the search finished and i clicked on the store I wanted. Instead of going to the stores home page I was brought to another search page for some random searching website.

I thought it was an error on my part so I did it again searching for a different chain and when I clicked on the link I was brought to another search engine.

What gives?

Any one had this problem?

Any idea how my computer got this problem?

Spyware... use spybot.

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Originally posted by healimonster@1 January 2004 - 17:20
What gives?

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You've got some nasty program on your computer doing that.

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Any one had this problem?

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Plenty of people.

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Any idea how my computer got this problem?

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Someone installed a program they shouldn't have.

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Originally posted by TheKiler@1 January 2004 - 17:35
Spyware... use spybot.

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Agreed, or Ad-aware as I prefere to use.

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Originally posted by TRshady+1 January 2004 - 18:41--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (TRshady &#064; 1 January 2004 - 18:41)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-TheKiler@1 January 2004 - 17:35
Spyware... use spybot.

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Agreed, or Ad-aware as I prefere to use. [/b][/quote]
Use both, and also spywareblaster, it&#39;s a great preventive proggie, which works nicely together with Spybot.

Also Immunize yer system with Spybot, while yer at it.

EDit: link for Spybot

EDit again: and get this too, just in case: hijack This

i have had these search page problems too.
i havent ever used spybot or adware or what have you...
all i do is go in to the registry and delte the files from there...it works a treat and everything is back to normal...so say i type an invalid url address it will not redirect me to a seach page but it will give me the orginal 404 error or the page cannot be displayed.

should i be using the ad ware destroyers if i can over come via the regsitry?

well all Spybot does is finds the keys in the registry matching to its database(having common spyware&#39;s and adware&#39;s) and gives you the option to delete it.

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Originally posted by chinook_apache@1 January 2004 - 20:00
i have had these search page problems too.
i havent ever used spybot or adware or what have you...
all i do is go in to the registry and delte the files from there...it works a treat and everything is back to normal...so say i type an invalid url address it will not redirect me to a seach page but it will give me the orginal 404 error or the page cannot be displayed.

should i be using the ad ware destroyers if i can over come via the regsitry?

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With spybot and spyblaster you can prevent them from ever getting into your registry.

Also, hijackthis and such lets you find more than you&#39;d find on your own.

And apart from that, it&#39;s rather easy to miss an entry here or there, or miss something that doesn&#39;t make much of a nuisance of itself, if you only do it manually.

I Just Use Spybot & Ad-Aware But Also Never Install Suspicious Programs Or Click Yes On Those Security Warnings - Works Fine For Me :D :lol: Watch Out For The Security Warnings And Dialer Downloads When Searching For *coff coff* porn ;) :lol: :D

Get spywareblaster and hijackthis too, they are both free and quite excellent IMO.