Change in Google search engine? [RESOLVED]

[baja_yu]

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?

[visualAd]

Could you upload a screen shot? - Google looks normal to me

[baja_yu]

This is the results for the word 'microsoft'

[RobDog888]

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.

[baja_yu]

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.

[ThaRubby]

That is weird, what happens when you use firefox?

[visualAd]

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.

[baja_yu]

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).

[baja_yu]

Finally, I used LSPFix to remove instances of the flsmngr.dll, which was causing the problem.

Thanks everyone for the help.