On 21/11/2008, at 11:07 PM, Joe Baker wrote:
During the past two weeks I have been experiencing problems with
Google searching in Safari. It is happening more and more frequently.
When entering a search and clicking on a link, I go through various
addresses and end up on some weird sites that have nothing to do
with what I searching for.
The first address usually begins with http://www.google.com/au/
search? with a search string that I entered.
Then it goes to an address beginning http://copy-book.com/ (and
again with the serach string).
Then it gets redirected, jumped through various addresses that begin
with ISP likes
http://99.198.101.42 (somewhere in Houston Texas) and
http://216.133.243.28 (somewhere in Las Vegas Nevada)
and finally I end up on those strange websites.
If I go back (using the previous page arrows) and select again - and
maybe repeat this a few times, things seem to return to normal and I
can reach my required destination.
Also when the initial Google result are displayed on the first page,
none of them have the cache link
and if you try and select other pages the same first page is
displayed.
And is the following a similar problem - or is it just targeted
marketing? A couple of weeks ago I started seeing Vimax ads
repeatedly on pages I frequently visited. Now some of these sites
are very respectable websites and I do not think they would be
advertising this stuff.
Regards
Joe Baker
Sounds like poisoned DNS.
Your domain name servers are not giving you the real Google search
page when you visit <http://www.google.com>
Try these checks:
1). VIew the source of www.google.com - see if it contains something
like <script src="http://copy-book.com/copybook.js";></script>
(as referenced here: <http://www.techsupportforum.com/security-center/hijackthis-log-help/282739-google-redirect-copy-book-com-help.html
>
If it does, then your not really on Google's search engine at all, but
a nefarious copy....
2). Switch your DNS to opendns rather than your isp's
Instructions here:
<https://www.opendns.com/homenetwork/start>
Try the same test of the source for google.com
If this fixes things, I'd forward this message to your ISP, who will
need to patch and clean their DNS system....
Nasty stuff!
Hope this assists.
--
Steve.
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