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Re: Help, my browser has been hijacked!         

Group: microsoft.public.outlook · Group Profile
Author: Peter Foldes
Date: Sep 4, 2008 20:21

Crossposted to the IE7 newsgroup for convenience

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Peter

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"Nut that holds the wheel" dakotacomm.net> wrote in message news:Z9SdnXCQifCf-F3VnZ2dnUVZ_gmdnZ2d@posted.dakotacomip...
>I am running Internet Explorer 7 (7.0.5730.13) under Windows XP Service Pack
> 3.
> Recently, when I do a search from Google or Yahoo, I get back the expected
> listing of hits. For example, I did a search on "Internet Explorer Beta 2".
> I got a page full of references, one of which was a link to the Windows
> Internet Explorer 8 Home Page at
> www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/beta. When I click on this link,
> a new page opens with the following in the address bar:
> http://www.findstuff.com/search.php?uvx=tyP9p3gue2ocEuvQhDcrhuf_qjZshT4wFddfxMeQ...
> This is obviously not the Microsoft web site. Something has hijacked my
> search engine and is redirecting my searches.
>
> If I click on the back arrow from here, I momentarily see a URL that starts
> with www.topdir2.com/feed/click... but I end up back at the findstuff.com
> page.
>
> Sometimes I am redirected to the lowpriceshopper.com page or some other
> page, and some times I am not redirected at all.
>
> How can I find out what is causing this redirection and who/what I have to
> kill to fix this problem? Any help would be appreciated.
> Thanks
> Jim
>
>
>
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