is anyone else having trouble with Google?

[Pepperbelly]

I go there and instead of what I am used to seeing, I get a page with links to things like Parent Directory, etc.

looks like this:

Index of /
Name Last modified Size Description
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Parent Directory 08-Jun-2004 02:54 -
!index.php 09-May-2004 11:54 2k
1index.php 13-Jun-2004 16:12 2k
exadmin_google.php 10-May-2004 15:36 3k
googlebody.php 08-May-2004 22:12 18k
images/ 25-Apr-2004 12:33 -
newvars.php 25-Apr-2004 12:02 1k
razliva.php 26-Apr-2004 02:51 1k
urls.php 08-May-2004 22:22 1k


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[belladonna]

1. It's working just fine for me

Maybe you typed in the addy wrong? :shrug:

[salvorhardin]

2. Sounds like you might have a browser hijack

You've picked up a particularly nasty piece of malware called a browser hijack. Specifically this piece of software lurks in the background watching everyplace you go on the web and when you try to access a particular type of website (such as a search engine) that its' customers are competing against, it will redirect you to its' customer's website instead.

Download a free piece of software called Spybot Search & Destroy, along with any updates for it. Install it and any updates you've downloaded, run and it should get rid of most of the problems on the first pass. Be sure to use its' Immunize feature to help lock down Internet Explorer.

Also, I highly encourage you to switch to Mozilla Firefox for web browsing. In fact, you may have to as some of these browser hijacks will prevent you from getting to the Spybot S&D homepage.