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I just notice this today, when I do a search on Google I get some false looking results. At first I thought some spyware/hijacker could be modifying the search results. Then I notice that when I go to the second page of results everything is fine. Now I think that the first page could be advertisements.
Anyone else have any info on this?
Could you upload a screen shot? - Google looks normal to me :confused:
This is the results for the word 'microsoft'
You mean Microsoft isnt even at the top of the result listing? Tsk, tsk, bad MS cant even get your own stuff right. ;)
Ps, it looks normal to me.
It's not normal, when I go to the second page it is normal. It sometimes shows only one result on the first page. But in most cases it has no relevance to the search string.
That is weird, what happens when you use firefox?
That does look like spyware or adware of some kind to me. Actually the fact you are not aware of its existance probably makes it a tojan. Have a look at your hosts file, I'll also see if I can dig something up.
The hosts file is empty (default). I have installed SpyBot S&D, it reported nothing, I have updated Kaspersky AV and scanned, it found some minor stuff, but it did not change the behavior.
I recently caught a virus (trojan) which changed my desktop wallpaper to the blue screen of death with a message:
"Error caused in IE... some VXD.... caused by trojan-spy.html.smitfraud.c
System cannot function in normal mode ....."
stuff like that. After that I scanned with kaspersky, which did not help. I then searched on the net and found a manual solution which did work.
After the fix I installed SP2 (I had SP1).
Finally, I used LSPFix to remove instances of the flsmngr.dll, which was causing the problem.
Thanks everyone for the help.