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Get nothing but ads when I click on search results in Yahoo and Google. What's going on?

When I do a search for something on Yahoo! or Google, and I click on the search results, I do not get the appropriate page, but an ad. Not one specific thing, it could be anything from ads for magazines to financial companies. And when I hit the back button, I just get another ad. How do I fix this??? I have had trouble with malware and cookies recently, though Norton claims it has all been fixed.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    "Norton claims it has all been fixed."

    Really? Mr Norton personally called you on the phone and told you that things we're all fixed? Find that hard to believe.

    Your machine is infected with malware that redirects you to ad sites. Infections are typically complex operations: there are the infections that can be easily detected and cleaned, but there are also deeper bugs like rootkits that keep the path open for re-infection.

    Ultimately, it's possible that your HD may have to be wiped. I suggest you start saving media on your HD for safekeeping. While that may prove unneccessary, my work computer has similarly been infected, and my IT staff is telling me that they may need to clean the HD.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    you may desire to understand on element, google delibrately teach merely one or 2 commercial on the precise of the web site and those are additionally marked as Google classified ads. relax are the outcomes shown, based on your question. The commercial web content have very good experience of the biggest words bcos of their chronic updation of database and that they shop inviting Googlebot to their web site via some set of rules. I dont understand the way it truly works, yet they do it. subsequently the preliminary consequences are form of commercial yet no longer likely a promote. i think of you may desire to be clever in making searches. in case you want to hunt 2 or 3 be conscious eg., saurav ganguly then you definately might desire to offer "saurav ganguly" (with expenditures) in case you want saurav ganguly a instructor then this is going to be "saurav ganguly"+instructor. continuously forget approximately *torrents, fulldownloads and so on., desire it is effectual and you gets much less classified ads,

  • Shae S
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    Try Malwarebyte's Antimalware!

  • R A
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    hi

    Your computer has bee hijacked. meaning a bug was implanted while browsing the internet, most likely some type of "trojan horse".

    I would suggest running anti-spyware software, or installing it (mcafee/symantec, etc) and clean up your computer.

    good luck

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  • 1 decade ago

    Go to a non infected computer, download "Spybot- search and destroy"(its free), burn it to CD or put it on a jump drive, install on your computer and run.

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