Why am I redirected to useless search sites when I click on a google search result?

Google is my home page, I search and get normal google results, when I then click on the site of choice, I am redirected to useless sites getting me to buy crap, for instance I google Air Canada, their official site is the first in the results, I click on it and am redirected to another search result page, this is the page
http://www.informationgetter.com/search-results.aspx?keywords=air+canada

This type of behaviour can be caused by malware. Try running several malware scanners. It is best to run several as each will pick up things that the others miss. Some scanners you can try are:
* [http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php Malwarebytes]
* [http://www.superantispyware.com/ SUPERAntiSpyware]
* [http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php Ad-Aware]
* [http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/defender/default.mspx Windows Defender]
* [http://www.safer-networking.org/en/home/index.html Spybot S&D]
You may have the re-direct virus described on this site - http://deletemalware.blogspot.com/2010/02/remove-google-redirect-virus.html
If the above malware scanners do not find any malware or can not clear it, you should consider posting in one of these forums for specialized malware removal help:
* http://forums.spybot.info/
* http://www.spywarewarrior.com/index.php
* http://forum.aumha.org/
* http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/
* http://www.spywareinfoforum.com/

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