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John M
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John M asked in Computers & InternetInternetOther - Internet · 1 decade ago

Firefox and/or Google Virus?

My wife is using Firefox and trying to search for things in Google. When she searches, the correct titles of the websites come up, like Wikipedia, various shopping sites, etc. However, the actual web link goes to a shopping browser, not wikipedia, not amazon, etc. This is every single thing that comes up with every google search. We reloaded firefox, checked settings on google and ran antivirus. Nothing works. Thoughts?

Update:

This happens on regular google searches, not typing an address into the URL.

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  • Don M
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    I find that if you use a link to open some of your favorites and the URL is not a complete URL it will divert to these so called added browser settings

    So you need to place the entire un changed URL 's in your favorites or Bookmarks to make them work picture perfect everytime, EXAMPLES, these are correct.

    http://www.wikipedia.com/

    http://www.google.com/

    http://www.qvc.com/

    Note that the entire URL must be saved in your bookmarks, or favorites or you risk redirecting to these other sites.

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