Windows 10 reached EOS (end of support) on October 14, 2025. If you are on Windows 10, see this article.

Avatar for Username

Search Support

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Learn More

This thread was archived. Please ask a new question if you need help.

Improper redirect from results page

  • 1 reply
  • 10 have this problem
  • 2 views
  • Last reply by AnonymousUser
  • Archived

AnonymousUser
AnonymousUser

using firefox 3.6.3. It 'crashed' yesterday. [Never ever had a problem w/FF 'til yesterday.] Had to reboot computer w/manual shut-down of firefox. Now when I do a search, click on a particular result, I am not directed to Amazon - for example - but to ad for car rental or business college or vacation home. I think I had malicious adware planted but I can't find it.

This happened

Every time Firefox opened

== 5/23/2010

using firefox 3.6.3. It 'crashed' yesterday. [Never ever had a problem w/FF 'til yesterday.] Had to reboot computer w/manual shut-down of firefox. Now when I do a search, click on a particular result, I am not directed to Amazon - for example - but to ad for car rental or business college or vacation home. I think I had malicious adware planted but I can't find it. == This happened == Every time Firefox opened == 5/23/2010

All Replies (1)

AnonymousUser
AnonymousUser Question owner

Since 7/1/10 or about when I installed/updated to 3.6.6, I have had constant redirects to the wrong pages, to advertising sites, and, often, to "Firefox cannot connect to server". In many cases, if I "open in new tab" the redirect is not improper. In most cases, when I get an "cannot connect to server", a number of retries (4 or 5) eventually connects. I have gone through the Firefox support and help pages, checked all of the Options settings, allowed pop-ups (no change), already allowed Javascript (no change), blocked cookies from some of the unwanted sites (some seem to no longer redirect), cleared the cache (no change), deleted all cookies (no change), checked the blocked cookie sites (no change but seems OK), etc.

This is recent, never happened before, is very annoying, and is almost a complete crash or lock up of the browser because I cannot get to any Yahoo or Google search site without dozens of jumps, redirects, "cannot connects", etc. If I enter the URL directly, it usually does not redirect but almost always "cannot connect".