desmond5986

Recently, every time when i type in something i was intended to search on yahoo or Google website, it will link me to a different website after i have click on the web link which i need and i have to back to the yahoo or Google website and type in the exactly same thing which i was intended to search, and it will bring me to the right website.

Does any one has the same problem ? thanks for any help ...

Geekgirl

Sounds like your search engine has changed, what version of IE are you using?

desmond5986

i am actually using netscape and firefox, i didn't use IE..

Geekgirl

I moved this thread to the appropriate forum, plz be patient, someone will reply

irahat

I think there are viruses on your computer or clear the cache or temporary internet files or just try uninstalling and install the internet browsers again...! I think it might solve your problem because sometime I used to have same kinda problem.

desmond5986

I did try to clear the cache and the temporary files in the folder " Temp ", but it won't allow me to delete it and shown an error that " the files are being used by other program", i guess that is virus. What should i do now ?

koala

Are your initial searches done from a browser toolbar or from the search website (google, yahoo, etc)?

The Temp folder can contain files that are being used by the operating system or other programs, not necessarily virus-related, but your redirected searches do indicate a possible infection.

Have you run any malware scans?

If you think you might have spyware or a virus, please follow these instructions and start a new thread in the Virus/Trojans/Spyware forum where an analyst will help you as soon as possible.

desmond5986

i am searching by the website like google or yahoo not the toolbar, i haven't run any malware scan, is there any free website to do so ?

Actually i have tried to boot into safe mode just now and try to delete all the files in the Temp folder and it worked, but the files will back to the folder again after i have boot into window.

koala

It's normal for files to be in the Temp folder, but we won't know if any of these files are dangerous until you've run a security scan.

You can do an online scan with Trend Micro House Call, Kaspersky and several others.

You should already have an antivirus program installed. If you don't have one, Avast, Avira and AVG all have freeware versions (only install one if you don't already have an antivirus).

For anti-spyware, you can use Malwarebytes, SpyBot or Ad-Aware.

If, after running the scans, you would like a more thorough analysis of your computer, please follow the links in my last post.