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30 December 2008, 08:37 AM

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Redirected?

I keep getting redirected when im searching for something(XP)
Any ideas?cheers

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30 December 2008, 08:46 AM

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Searching on the web or locally on your PC?

Redirected to where?

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30 December 2008, 09:55 AM

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sorry..searching on the web and it takes me to other sites not relavent

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30 December 2008, 10:21 AM

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Where does it take you? When you install things like MSN or Yahoo it gives you the option to use a particular site to search if a page isn't found.

If you use OpenDNS it does something similiar.

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30 December 2008, 02:20 PM

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Might be worth checking your hosts file to see if something has put some odd entries in there to redirect (say) google to another IP address.

Another possibility could be that something has installed a browser "helper".