That is strange.
Are you doing this on their homepage or on your browser?
Sounds like spyware. Happened to my wife. She had to copy/paste the link every time she wanted to do a search.
Run malware bytes or a good av
go to www.mybleepingcomputer.com the forums there will help you fix it.
If you are clicking on an advertisement in the list, you may be redirected to a different link than the one listed. Kind of a bait and switch by some companies.
Ugh. I had a virus that did that among other things. It didn’t do it all the time, but sometimes it did it. It was taken into the computer shop where they repaired it.
I had this problem. At the top of your browser, go to ‘Tools’, go to Manage Add-ons, and disable anything you don’t need.
Sometimes I click on what looks like info I’m after only to find it’s a portal, a list of links related to the original search but sometimes straying off-topic as you go down the list.
I can’t believe this but I have a problem too. I can’t do searches on the browser or any search link on my desktop.
I assume one of the Windows updates messed it up. They always seem to mess up something. It somehow disappeared. Hopefully someone here can solve it.
Ask.com purchases ads tuned to appear for certain searches. If you click on one of their ads, you get hijacked to their search engine, where you will hopefully discover its greatness. Or not.
Of course, nothing wrong with contributing a little spare change to keep the server farm nourished ...
Sounds like that damn Google Redirect Virus. I had it on my laptop a few months ago and it is a pain in the a$$ to wipe off.
I used an updated version of Spybot Search & Destroy, which it was able to locate the Trojan, but I remember still having to change some setting in the IE Tools menu to get the redirects to stop. If you’re expereinced in running Hijack This (I’m not), that’s probably the best way to go.
Use Firefox and do a Google Search on Google Redirect Virus. There’s some step-by-steps in various forums on how to deal with it. I can’t remember exactly what I did, but all I know is that it was a major pain.
I still have never been able to figure out how this virus spreads. People just perform regular Google searches, then when they click on one of the search results, or even a news story or image, it takes them to a bogus search engine website set up by hackers looking to make money for every click on the page they get. It’s very annoying.
There are a lot of perfectly nice programs that you might install but that take a lot of clicking “next” to get to each page for the next step of the install. You have to be careful, because there is often a page slipped in there that asks, “Do you want to add the Ask (or whatever) toolbar and make Ask (or whatever) your default search engine?”. Stuff like that. If you don’t unclick some buttons on that page, you end up with extra toolbars and other crap you didn’t expect. So before clicking “next” on a program install, quickly peruse each page to make sure it’s a necessary part of the actual install.
Sounds like a redirect virus. Until you can get it cleaned up, when you do a Google search, try going to the cached page instead of the presented link and it should take you to the desired site...then, just clink on “present page”.
You have what is commonly referred to as the “Google Redirect” virus.
It’s actually a rootkit, and can be difficult to remove. Start with the TDSS Killer from Kaspersky labs:
http://support.kaspersky.com/faq/?qid=208280684
After it has run, removed it and you have rebooted, download, install and run MalwareBytes:
Good Luck!
Warning! Warning! Warning!
Do NOT download and install software until you have done the same search on somebody elses computer and gotten different results!
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