Sounds like you're really having a lot of problems. Thanks to the guy above who suggested Combo Fix, i'll throw that in the toolbox.
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Originally Posted by djflish
1. This is the worst one, and the reason I can't find out how to fix the others! When I use Google or Yahoo to search something and click on one of the results, it doesn't open the link, but opens another window with some random site. It doesn't work when I copy & paste the URL either. I can only access sites from my favorites (like TFP  ) |
I was JUST at a friend's house and he had a similar problem. He is on Vista with IE7 and I was looking for things via search (which defaulted to Yahoo) and I was clicking the links for the search results and a popup would come up. I forget the name of the site, but if you say it and it's the same one I'll probably recall it ... obviously. After closing, trying again, closing, I found that it would work.
I immediately suspected some kind of BHO infiltration, so I checked the add-ons and found something suspicious. I tried to nuke it with Spyware S&D (it picked it up) and it wouldn't leave.
Are you running IE7, or IE at all? If so, check the addons to see if there's anything that looks funky. The one I saw was a jumble of numbers.
I hate to jump on the Firefox bandwagon, because there's all this evidence and hard numbers that illustrated the memory leaks made it lame, but I seriously have never had any problems when people use it. I've had to deal with dozens of BHOs infiltrating IE7 though :-/ I have to advise giving that a whirl.
But maybe you've already got Firefox and then I've really got nothing good to say, other than download a program called HijackThis and post the log here or on a HJT specialty forum where people will take a crack at your stuff.