Did you also check Tools -> Options -> Languages button? I just tried setting 
de-de as an accept language, and I get a google page in German now (but still 
just google.com). Dunno if that can have the effect you are seeing though.

Cheers
Ken

From: David Trent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, 12 February 2008 10:14 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: IE7 redirecting to Google.de

I've semi-confirmed it's not a malware issue. I grabbed another laptop which 
was getting to Google.com<http://Google.com> ok through a different ISP, and 
connected it to the router using my ISP, and browsed to 
Google.com<http://Google.com>. Google.de<http://Google.de> came up immediately.

So Google thinks that the IPs that my ISP is giving out to customers, are IPs 
that should be shown the German Google home page when 
google.com<http://google.com> is browsed to. Explains why browsing to 
gmail.com<http://gmail.com> shows a site which looks identical to Gmail, but is 
called Google Mail.

My ISP says they have had no complaints (other than mine.) Now comes the long 
process of getting Google to talk to my ISP and vice versa. Yuck.
On Feb 11, 2008 1:30 PM, David Trent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]>> wrote:
Found this (same problem, but no solution), posted 6 days ago:

www.mcse.ms/message2735820.html<http://www.mcse.ms/message2735820.html>
On Feb 11, 2008 1:19 PM, David Trent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]>> wrote:
Rootkit Revealer found only three items-- two embedded nulls, and a system 
restore rdb file hidden from Windows API.
On Feb 11, 2008 1:07 PM, David Trent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]>> wrote:
The language settings are for English.

I'm running Rootkit Revealer now...
On Feb 11, 2008 12:39 PM, Alex Eckelberry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]>> wrote:
Why would it hijack to a legitimate Google site?

Something else might be going on here.

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From: Christopher J. Bosak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 3:35 PM

To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: IE7 redirecting to Google.de<http://google.de/>

Gmail should redirect to mail.google.com<http://mail.google.com/>



Sounds like a browser hijack to me.



From: David Trent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 14:32 hrs
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: IE7 redirecting to Google.de<http://google.de/>



Gmail also redirects to Google Mail.

On Feb 11, 2008 12:11 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:

We had a user get infected with something.... HOSTS file was clean but the DNS 
servers had been modified (IPCONFIG /ALL showed two new ones at the top of the 
list).



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02/11/2008 03:09 PM

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Nothing out of the ordinary in the hosts file, btw.
On Feb 11, 2008 12:03 PM, David Trent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]>> wrote:
Has anyone seen any spyware that does this? IE7 is set to open up a 
google.com<http://google.com/> page as its first tab among several. For a split 
second, the address bar shows google.com<http://google.com/>, then it changes 
to google.de<http://google.de/> and displays that site.

AV scan runs clean, and so does an anti-malware scan.

XP SP2 system, with patches up to date.









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