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Searches behaving strangely, and links not going to the right sites

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Stchurdak
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When i do a google search (or Yahoo) it either goes straight to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/aa570318.aspx or gives me the list of results. When it gives me the results, I click on one but then it ends up putting this, http://www.goingonearth.com/search.php?q=microsoft, in the address bar and not loading. How do i get it to behave normally?It happens on firefox 5.0 and Aurora.

When i do a google search (or Yahoo) it either goes straight to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/aa570318.aspx or gives me the list of results. When it gives me the results, I click on one but then it ends up putting this, http://www.goingonearth.com/search.php?q=microsoft, in the address bar and not loading. How do i get it to behave normally?It happens on firefox 5.0 and Aurora.

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Svetlana
Svetlana
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Please try: What to do when searches take you to the wrong search website

Stchurdak
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I did have some malware issues recently, I thought i had resolved them all after running several different scans but Superantispyware just found 10 more, 6 of which are browser hijackers.

Before this though, i disabled some of my addons and it started working correctly.

Thanks for the help.