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do i have some sort of virus or is this a common problem with firefox. i do a search in google and when i click on a link it will get redirected to a different website. i can type the address of the link into the bar and the proper page will load. also, there are no problems with explorer(i keep it on my computer for some stupid reason)

do i have some sort of virus or is this a common problem with firefox. i do a search in google and when i click on a link it will get redirected to a different website. i can type the address of the link into the bar and the proper page will load. also, there are no problems with explorer(i keep it on my computer for some stupid reason)

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So links from your search results page get redirected? It does indeed look like it might be a malware issue.

Antivirus recommendations (if you don't have one already):

http://www.avast.com/eng/programs.html http://www.avira.com/en/download/index.html

Malware program recommendations:

Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware - http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php SuperAntispyware - http://www.superantispyware.com/ AdAware - http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/ Spybot Search & Destroy - http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html

If these don't find it or can't clear it, post in one of these forums for specialized malware removal help: http://www.spywarewarrior.com/index.php http://forum.aumha.org/ http://www.spywareinfoforum.com/