Google sign-in, support, and some other Google links redirect to local community college sign-in page.
I use DuckDuckGo for searching things, however, I do need to log into Google every now and then for things like YouTube and whatnot. I attempted to log in from YouTube today and was greeted by the sign-in page for Ivy Tech, a community college in Indiana (the state I live in). That was obviously not where I wanted to go. I then went to google.com and attempted to sign-in there. I was redirected again to Ivy Tech's sign-in page. I knew this had to be due to malware or something similar, and my assumption was confirmed by a few forum posts that complained about issues similar to this. When searching about the problem, I discovered Google's support site also redirects me to Ivy Tech.
Going to the Google sign-in page on Microsoft Edge and Chrome works fine, so this is clearly within Firefox itself. I recently was on Ivy Tech's site about a month and a half ago to apply there, but I have successfully signed into Google with Firefox a few times since then without trouble. Tonight was the first time I've run into this issue. The last time I signed into Google was probably two weeks ago.
Any insight as to why this is occurring and how to resolve it, and possibly, as to why a community college has apparently hijacked my Firefox, would be much appreciated.
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Glad you have "cleared" your issue, DJD119. May be there were some corrupted cookies, may be some corrupted cache.
Here is what I have been doing in my Firefox: There were some Microsoft sites that required I have third-party cookies to sign in there a long time ago.
Because of that, I accept first- and third-party cookies, but I dump cookies and cache when I close Firefox. I set exceptions to KEEP cookies related to my sites where I have preferences set and sites that set cookies to remember my last sign-in.
I use always long and complex passwords that I save in my Password Manager, itself behind a single remembered password. Every site has passwords that resemble "@M]^4e" and over 12 characters long. I don't have to type them in, and if a site gets hacked, there are few, IF ANY passwords that will open a second site in my name.
When running Windows, even Android, an AV app and a malware scanner are necessary evils. Keep them current and updated with the latest databases.
One more thing I do, I always launch the Firefox Profile Manager. From there I launch FF in my Default profile nearly all the time, but if I have an issue, this page won't load, or whatnot, I will launch from a new, clean profile. My Default has seen a few years' use now, and once in a while I hit a snag. I'll dump the cookies from the troublesome site and dump my cache. That usually gets me running again.
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Okay, I have just deleted a ton of cookies, and revised my settings so that third-party cookies will not be made. The redirect is gone for now, but I will report back if it appears again.
I found several cookies for Ivy Tech's various sites, as well as a few from related organizations that are linked to Ivy Tech's site.
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Glad you have "cleared" your issue, DJD119. May be there were some corrupted cookies, may be some corrupted cache.
Here is what I have been doing in my Firefox: There were some Microsoft sites that required I have third-party cookies to sign in there a long time ago.
Because of that, I accept first- and third-party cookies, but I dump cookies and cache when I close Firefox. I set exceptions to KEEP cookies related to my sites where I have preferences set and sites that set cookies to remember my last sign-in.
I use always long and complex passwords that I save in my Password Manager, itself behind a single remembered password. Every site has passwords that resemble "@M]^4e" and over 12 characters long. I don't have to type them in, and if a site gets hacked, there are few, IF ANY passwords that will open a second site in my name.
When running Windows, even Android, an AV app and a malware scanner are necessary evils. Keep them current and updated with the latest databases.
One more thing I do, I always launch the Firefox Profile Manager. From there I launch FF in my Default profile nearly all the time, but if I have an issue, this page won't load, or whatnot, I will launch from a new, clean profile. My Default has seen a few years' use now, and once in a while I hit a snag. I'll dump the cookies from the troublesome site and dump my cache. That usually gets me running again.
This is probably more likely a problem with the disk cache or the connection settings.
You can check the connection settings.
- Options/Preferences -> General -> Network: Connection -> Settings
If you do not need to use a proxy to connect to internet then try to select "No Proxy" if "Use the system proxy settings" or one of the others do not work properly.
See "Firefox connection settings":