google help (+rep)

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Originally Posted by Jaaaack!

Have you restarted your modem? Just a general thing, Im not sure if it could effect it

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Wouldn't be the problem.

Sorry about my thread yesterday, it seemed to have accidently cleared half my thread off. What I think I said was that you could try going to chrome://settings/advanced and untick 'Use a prediction service to help complete searches and URLs typed in the address bar'.

EDIT: Report the problem here: chrome://bugreport/#4

Its not an issue with the Chrome program.

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Originally Posted by Michaeel

Sorry about my thread yesterday, it seemed to have accidently cleared half my thread off. What I think I said was that you could try going to chrome://settings/advanced and untick 'Use a prediction service to help complete searches and URLs typed in the address bar'.

EDIT: Report the problem here: chrome://bugreport/#4

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Originally Posted by Recursion

Its not an issue with the Chrome program.

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yeh chrome/internet explorer is completely fine. it's firefox.

Do you have any add-ons for firefox>?

Download Prevx Safe Online http://www.prevx.com/safeonline.asp

It'll figure out what's hijacking your browser for you.

Navigate to about:config in your URL bar. Click "I'll be careful, I promise!" and type keyword.url into the search bar. If the value is different than below, replace it:

http://www.google.com/search?btnI=I%...-8&oe=UTF-8&q=

I hope I've helped.

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Originally Posted by iJoe

Download Prevx Safe Online http://www.prevx.com/safeonline.asp

It'll figure out what's hijacking your browser for you.

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um, well it found 5 "infections" for me, but i gotta pay to get rid of them ha? i've done a screenie so if anyone knows how to fix them without paying ha.

http://i53.tinypic.com/206c19j.jpg

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Originally Posted by triston220

Navigate to about:config in your URL bar. Click "I'll be careful, I promise!" and type keyword.url into the search bar. If the value is different than below, replace it:

http://www.google.com/search?btnI=I%...-8&oe=UTF-8&q=

I hope I've helped.

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did that and it's still redirecting hahaha.

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Originally Posted by bethie

um, well it found 5 "infections" for me, but i gotta pay to get rid of them ha? i've done a screenie so if anyone knows how to fix them without paying ha.

http://i53.tinypic.com/206c19j.jpg



did that and it's still redirecting hahaha.

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Those types of virus are a pain to remove. I've had them before and used many different anti viruses and anti malware programs in attempt to remove them, and even when they say it's successfully removed the virsus always would manage to bounce back. Your best bet is to copy all of your files over to an external hardrive (scanning them on the way out so as not to transport the virus with you) and then format your hard drive and re-install your OS.

Using an anti virus is all jolly and good, but once you've had a virus like that you shouldn't trust your PC until it's been formatted. I just use anti viruses to alert me to problems and to quarantine stuff before it can cause harm, they're mostly useless at actually getting rid of them once they've stuck.

These are the easiest things to remove ever, you just have to boot into safe mode and work out where it stores it's DLLs, .exe and then do a registry cleanup with CCleaner. Generally they're stored in %AppData%\RANDOM-STRING.exe

These are usually because your system isn't up to date or you're using an outdated/crap browser.