Adware or something is taking over my borwser--pls help.

From: James Bond (jbond_at_universalexports.com)
Date: 02/02/04 

Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 16:12:27 GMT

First, if this is not an appropritate group for posing this question,
please refer me to the correct one.

Now, on the the issue. I use google as my search engine and have it set as
my home page. Though I am very careful about letting unknown software get
on my computer, I seem to have something going on that is taking over my
browser. First, my home page keeps getting changed to SearchCentral.cc
(actually, in the set home page field it is listed by IP, 81.211.105.43).

Even worse than that, when I am using Google, some portion of the links in
a google search results page are actually redirected to this same Search
Central with my original Google search parameters filled in on
SearchCentral search box. When this happens, the only way I can actually
get to the url shown in the Google search results is to cut and paste the
real url.

Can someone please help me figure out how to find the pervasive code that
is taking over my browser and eradicate it.

Thank you.

James

Relevant Pages

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  • Re: Java im Zeitalter von Vista
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    (de.comp.lang.java)
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  • Re: Lowering KW density on 3 word phrases
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