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Can't stop redirects, and effort to access resources that would help are "redirected". What to do?

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Malware, AdAware, AVG are all run, with no bugs found, yet system continues to redirect from searches in google, or from within another site. What can be done to stop it.

Malware, AdAware, AVG are all run, with no bugs found, yet system continues to redirect from searches in google, or from within another site. What can be done to stop it.

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Do a malware check with a few malware scan programs.
You need to use all programs because each detects different malware.
Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of the database before doing a scan.

See also "Spyware on Windows": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Popups_not_blocked and What to do when searches take you to the wrong search website