Google searches being hijacked?

acurno · 01-05-2010 06:55PM #1

Hi All,
Using google searches on firefox, and when I click into the link I'm searching the page gets redirected to this other search website or to some other spam website. Clearly something infected the computer, but AVG says everything is clean.

Any suggestions?Any way I can reboot or reload firefox or will this help?

Thanks

ASJ112 · 01-05-2010 10:33PM

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Google searches being hijacked?

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