Safari on MacMini keeps redirecting to unwanted webpage

Hi all, new to this but I have a bit of a problem. Just a little bit ago I attempted to access a website and was redirected to another (myspace.com). No matter what, Safari will not let me on the desired website and keeps redirecting me to myspace.com login page. I've tried searching to see if others have had the same problem and did download a trial of MacScan and that's running now. From what I'm reading it could be a trojan causing the problem. Any other recommendations on how to fix this and how to keep it from happening in the future?

Welcome to the Apple discussions.
There is a trojan that redirects a web browser to another site. See this article: http://www.macworld.com/article/60823/2007/10/trojanhorse.html . You might consider an antivirus program like http://www.clamxav.com , to monitor email and downloads, or that article talks about some other choices. Note that for a trojan you have to launch it, a trojan can't sneak in unless you take an action to enable it.

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