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Old 14 July 2008, 02:24 PM
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i recently installed firefox and now everytime i use google and find the site that i want, i click on it and it redirects me to something completely different..can anyone help or has anyone else had this problem?? thanks jon
Old 14 July 2008, 02:26 PM
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i recently installed firefox and now everytime i use google and find the site that i want, i click on it and it redirects me to something completely different..can anyone help or has anyone else had this problem?? thanks jon
theres a virus that does that, you may also notice links appearing in forum posts. Have you ran any virus check?
Old 14 July 2008, 02:44 PM
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yeah iv ran a virus checks with avg and ashampoo, and they found nothing, i even tried to change my computers clock to before it stared as well
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yeah iv ran a virus checks with avg and ashampoo, and they found nothing, i even tried to change my computers clock to before it stared as well
Have you tried a good virus checker (Nod32 for example)? AVG and other similarly priced producs are well known to miss things...
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no but i will try that 1 thanks
Old 14 July 2008, 04:24 PM
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Control Pannel

Network Connections

Right click and properties on your current connection

Look for Internet Protocol TCP/IP and double click it.

Set everything to Obtain auto
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i will try this aswell when i get home from work cheers....jon
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