Google search site switch

After typing a site in the google search pane (on the right side) and pressing return, it gets changed and a numerical site address and completely different site window comes up. The same site comes up on different searches.
I've run Macscan and have found no problems.
How do I correct/eliminate this?

Sounds like you downloaded something that's causing this. Take a look at this Macworld article and see if it applies to you:
http://www.macworld.com/article/60823/2007/10/trojanhorse.html
Mulder

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Safari don't open website - he ever wants using google search site

I wish to open a Website with Safari - everytime i type in an address safari open Google
The function "open address or search in Google" is terrible - how i can switch off this sh.t function and can only open an address?????

I think i use a different browser - perhaps Firefox or Chrome?
Have anybody a better idea?

When i type in my adress bar "facebook" it takes me to a google search instead of the site like it normaly would.

Normally when i type in lone site words like google, facebook, pandora, yahoo, and other such sites it automatically redirects me to the site without me having to type www and .com
but as of today it has started to direct me to a google search page of facebook, in particular, instead of the site.
Why might this be?

From the Safari menu bar, select
Safari ▹ Preferences... ▹ General ▹ New tabs open with: Empty Page

When I click on a result of a Google search and then go that web site, the Back button on the toolbar is grayed out and I cannot return to the search results.

When using FF3.6 and making a Google search, when I click on a result and then go that web site, the Back button on the toolbar is grayed out and I cannot return to the search results without going to History. This does not happen all the time; about 1/2 of the time.
This problem is not limited to Google, but occurs with other sites as well.

If you are talking about searches from - http://www.google.com/ - are you logged into a Google account all the time? If so, check your "Search Settings" from the "gear" in the upper-right corner of that Google search page and see if you have '''Open search results in a new browser window.''' check-marked, at the bottom of that preferences page. When that is check-marked and you have Tab options in Firefox set to '''Open new windows in a new tab instead''', you will get search results always opening in a new tab instead of the same tab. As to why that works different for "sponsored links" I don't know, I haven't seen the "sponsored links" for years now, I have a GM script that blocks those advertisements.

Is there a fix for Firefox being auto-redirected to known attack site from every new Google search?

Every time I do a Google search, the first link in that search clicked will direct me to a known attack site at http://64.111.212.229/ (URL followed by lines of gibberish code). It will occur only on the first link of any new search attempted.
My AV (Symantec Corporate 10.1.7.7000 version 12/8/2010 rev. 2) does not pick up any malware.
The problem does not occur in Google Chrome.
Does anyone have a similar problem and/or solution?
My Firefox: 3.6.13, OS: Windows 2003 Server Standard SP2.

@sergej0363: Well, nothing to stop you with your solution. I agree that some anit-spyware can be a bigger nuisance. Having said that, the problem you described may or may not look like a spyware problem though. I have found Spybot S&D to be quite serious and efficient, trusted by many.
It is not true that Mozilla is targeted specifically, although some browser-specific attacks may indeed occur, most often with IE. Assuming that your problem is indeed malware/spyware related it may be a matter of time until another browser is affected. And by no means Mozilla doesn't care. It actually has features like "block reported attack sites" or "web forgeries" when turned on. And Mozilla's OSS development model is usually considered to produce better security. But all this cannot always prevent e. g. drive-by infections or accidentally installing a spammer add-on.
As always, the classical triple precaution anti-virus, firewall, anti-spyware should help, besides keeping browser and OS software up to date and general.

At random times firefox loads an unrequested page. Sometimes it is the Google search page but more often it is a random page which sometimes loads or stays blank. I do not recognise them as sites from my directory. Otherwise Firefox works well. Any su

At random times firefox loads an unrequested page. Sometimes it is the Google search page but more often it is a random page which sometimes loads or stays blank. I do not recognise them as sites from my directory. Otherwise Firefox works well. Any suggestion for a cure?
== This happened ==
A few times a week
== one month ago

Glad to see its working.
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iWeb SEO Tool allows you to add the title tag and meta descritption for the Google entry...
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Several problems continuous since first installing Firefox. Personal google search settings don't save; remember me options on web sites like Facebook aren't remembered; Youtube and Flixy videos don't play despite removing/reinstalling/upgrading Firefox s

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== URL of affected sites ==
http://

I have a new problem with secondary web pages opening up without any action on my part other than simply moving the mouse pointer across the screen.

Since the most recent update (yesterday), periodically I am redirected to random sites when I click on a link from a Google search.

I opened Firefox yesterday morning, and it asked me to wait while it updated. When it was done, I was asked whether I wanted to enable "XUL Cache 1.0". It looked official enough, so I enabled it. Almost every time I clicked on a web link from a Google search, I was re-directed to websites like the Yellow Pages or a "Local Look-up" site. In desperation, I disabled the XUL cache extension, restarted Firefox, and things seemed fine. This morning and a couple times this afternoon however, I've been redirected to the wrong sites again. It isn't as prevalent as it was yesterday, but it is still there.

Do a malware check with some malware scanning programs on the Windows computer.<br />
You need to scan with all programs because each program detects different malware.<br />
Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of their databases before doing a scan.<br /><br />
*http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php - Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
*http://www.superantispyware.com/ - SuperAntispyware
*http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/defender/default.mspx - Windows Defender: Home Page
*http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html - Spybot Search & Destroy
*http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php - Ad-Aware Free
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*"Spyware on Windows": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Popups_not_blocked

Ad sites are popping up when I click on a link after a Google search in toolbar

When I do a search in the Google search window in the toolbar I get search results, but when I click on the links, instead of being taken to the site the link indicated, I get taken to a parasitical ad site like infomash.com or findstuff.com (there are several others). I can't get to the site of the link I clicked on. This does not occur when I go to www.google.com and do a search.

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* Bulleted list itemMalwarebytes' Anti-Malware - [http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php malwarebytes.org/mbam.php]
* SuperAntispyware - [http://www.superantispyware.com/ superantispyware.com]
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* Windows Defender - [http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/defender/default.mspx microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/defender/default.mspx]
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Where can I download firefox 3.6,firefox 4 is terrible ? I used to be able to put a key word in the address bar and go straight to the site now I get a stupid google search. I really hate firefox 4 if I cant go back i will use another browser .

Its all the little things I don't like about firefox 4 mainly the layout and the search.I thought my browser would get an upgrade, this is complete downgrade ,I never went with firefox for speed .I went with firefox because i hate toolbars and I loved the fact I could put tpb only in the address bar and go straight to the pirate bay or ww.bbc.co .uk by typing bbc

The change between Firefox 3.6.* and Firefox 4 is how location bar search works. In Firefox 3.6 it uses Google "Browse by name" search. With the browse by name search, it performs a Google search and if there is a clear match it will take you to the site, otherwise it shows the Google search result. With Firefox 4 it just performs a Google search if you type something which is not recognised as a URL.
To get the Firefox 3.6 behaviour on Firefox 4 you need to change a hidden preference.
# Type '''about:config''' into the location bar and press enter
# Accept the warning message that appears, you will be taken to a list of preferences
# Locate the preference '''keyword.URL''', double-click on it and change its value to the link shown below
[http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q= http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=]
If you prefer, you can also do this by installing the Browse by Name extension - https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/browse-by-name
Firefox is highly customizable and you may be able to customize it to meet your needs.
If you do not like the new UI, you can make Firefox 4 look and behave more like Firefox 3.6, for details see http://www.computertechtips.net/64/make-firefox-4-look-like-ff-3-6

Google used to be the search site, now I get MSN, and I want Google. Can I get it back as the default?

When I would click on Firefox, I would reach Google to do a web search. Now I get a very crowded page with MSN, I think it is . I want Google as the default , how can I do that? and why does Firefox change things with no notice to users?

Not sure I fully understand your question.
Are you referring to the Home Page when you first power up Firefox? If so, refer to this help article on [https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/How%20to%20set%20the%20home%20page?s=home+page&r=0&as=s How to Set the Home Page].
Are you referring to switching your Search Engine within Firefox? If so, refer to this help article on [https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Search%20bar?s=location+bar&r=4&as=s#w_switching-search-engines Switching and Managing Search Engines].
If it's none of the above, please clarify your query.

For some reason my google search bar which normally sits in the top right hand side of my screen has disappeared, but my normal search bar still remains. I want to get the google search bar back, but I'm not sure how

for some reason my google search bar which normally sits in the top right hand side of my screen has disappeared, but my normal search bar still remains. I want to get the google search bar back, but I'm not sure how

See Here...
https://discussions.apple.com/message/19334395#19334395

Firefox 8.0 usually links to an incorrect site from Google search on the first attempt, then gets it correct on the second attempt. What's happening here? Didn't occur with previous versions of Firefox (through 3.6.x).

I can provide specific instances if needed. This seems to happen almost every time. The incorrect sites do not appear to be of any specific type.
I'm also curious why the production version of Firefox jumped from 3.6.x to 8.0. Maybe I've installed a still-buggy beta version, but not on purpose.

cor-el,
Several additional observations which may be relevant:
1. The finger of suspicion seemed to point at Firefox 8 because IE7.0 didn't display the same symptom of redirecting Google search to the incorrect website. IE7.0 appeared to continue functioning normally.
2. When I ran a full scan using Symantec 10.1.6.6010 yesterday evening it found about 30 infections. Among them was the immediate cause of my annoyance, an infection that presented as "XP Home Security 2012". May have been Trojan.Gen.2 which showed up in multiple copies. Symantec also found the Windows firewall turned off, which may have been my error but I'm pretty careful about keeping tools like that, active. It's on now. However the problem with Firefox 8 remained. I can supply the Symantec scan results if that would be helpful.
3. Then I ran MalwareBytes Anti-Malware. It found about 5 infections and cured them. That fixed whatever was causing the problem with Firefox 8. I can supply the MalwareBytes log if that would be helpful.
4. A scan this morning with Kaspersky's TDSSKiller didn't find anything.
Martt

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