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for a few days now, something very annoying has been happening to me when surfing:
When I type (In both Firefox and IE) a question in the Google search box, the google page opens with possible answers to my question, but when I click on one of the answers, most of the time, instead of being sent to the page on whose link I clicked, I get sent to advertising sites, or in the beat case, to ask.com, where my original question re-appears and, like on Google, yields a number of possible answers.
Another thing that sometimes happens too is that, when I surf to a certain site, when the page opens, a new page opens automatically too, and yes, obviously, in that new window there is an advertising site opening.
Is my machine being hijacked by spyware, or viruses?
Every AVG virus scan comes back clear, I have ran Spybot Search and Destroy a number of times, and on one occasion quite a list of infections was removed, but after that, Spybot only found one, and that was cleared every time.
Has anyone had any similar experiences?
Can anyone advise me on how to fix this problem, as it is very annoying that I can't search in Google properly anymore?
If anyone knows a remedy, please let me know, as this is driving me up the wall.
Thank you in advance.
Edited by mrdee, 07 May 2010 - 09:54 AM.
