I said i don't think I have something. What I think or may not think has nothing to do with the problem. I am not the only one who has this. I have read at least 2 articles with people experiencing simalar problems. Anyway if you think I have something then please share how you think I might be able to get rid of it because nothing I have tried works. If I need to run another scanner that I have not tried then no big deal. I might try a restore now and see if that does anything. 

Than you've read it's a Google system exploit that has no solution........

If you have a Restore Point prior to this, use it.

I had the same problem yesterday on my iPad with both Safari and Chrome. Deleting all cookies fixed it.

You might try contacting Google about it and see what they say JC.  http://www.google.com/contact/

They'll just say "we don't use tracking cookies...we already know where you live...and BTW your undies are due a change..." ....

I am having the same problem, on not just my machine, but some at a company I was at yesterday.

Further to the problem, it seems that if you leave the mouse over the image in google images and let the thumbnail enlarge before clicking, you do not get the redirect message.

If you click on the image before letting the thumbnail enlarge, you do get the redirect warning.

Moshi and JuniorCrooks, can you test this to see if it is the same on your machines ?

From the OP:

This is evidently a Google and/or Microsoft issue as I just tried what Garzini did and it is doing the exact same thing in my IE. I don't really care though as I use Firefox and the problem does not occur with it.

People who turn off System Restore are entitled to all the fun they will have re-installing everything.

Well it appears I am not the only one after all. Anyway I have better things to do with my time then to continue to try to fix something as small as this. I simply decided to use yahoo instead of google, and wholla! no more problem. I don't know why I am using Internet anyway because it sucks. Maybe time to go back to Chrome or Firefox. Oh and what about Pale moon or whatever it is called? Does it support 64 bit yet? I think I tried to use it once but at that time it was only for 32 bit machines.

And one more thing seeing how restore was mentioned. I remember from my XP days that restore offered many restore points. Windows 7 by default does not offer hardly any. Is there a way to change this? I thought I saw in a setting somewhere a way to increase restore size or something. Would that give you more restore points? I see no point using restore if it only goes back a couple days.

I said one more thing but I lied. Different toppic. Why can't I use spell check on this site? I click spell check and the page goes blank. I thought it might be compatibility settings but changing it does not work.

If you could use spell check here it would ban Zubaz from posting

XP makes loads of restore points.

Vista makes fairly regular Checkpoint restore points.

Win 7 seems to get around to making one eventually.

I manually create one prior to installing something new and Revo creates one every time I uninstall something. When in doubt,make a new one.

You can assign a percentage of your drive space for use as restore points (Vista default was 15%, which with a 1 TB drive is a lot) Once this capacity is exceeded, it overwrites the oldest ones first.

Increasing/decreasing the amount only gives you more or less available points to choose from, it will not change the amount of points created.

Full image back-ups are great, but if a system restore will fix things, using one is overkill.

BTW, CCleaner Tools section has a restore point removal function, handy for dumping the restore points you don't want or need to keep. I usually keep 3-5 of the latest ones.

IESpell

 For Chrome I use: Spell Checker for Chrome 0.9.2.8

Yes.

http://www.palemoon.org/palemoon-x64.shtml

Thanks a whole bunch guys. All great info.

It is not a virus or anything like that folks, it probably does it on everybody's IE if they bother to check. It is probably a bug in IE or something at the Google Images site itself.

I agree with you Tom. I know Viruses, malware and rootkits can do some crazy things but I would almost bet a weeks wages it is a google screw up. It does happen with other browsers also, just not as common as it is with IE. I had it do it with Opera also.

On XP, I just jumped from Chrome to IE8 (which is like getting out of an F22 and into a glider) and I saw no problems with google images. No warnings or messages, just a redirect to the image as expected. I clicked on them well before they zoomed.

I agree with LightStar, it's just one of those random features available at no extra charge.

I have exactly the same problem and it started happening yesterday for me too. Someone else on a forum said it happened yesterday for them too. No problems with links generally, just Google's image page. Tried various suggestions found, logging out, new Google account, clearing cache and cookies, clearing all temp files, system restore, nothing works.

It isn't malware (unless they are doing fake sites with lots of wild flowers on anyway) because every onward click takes me the correct site and virus checks have found nothing.

May be coincidence but I have also found just in the last couple of days that Google search no longer works on a Windows CE5 device I have, it keeps trying to download a file google.co[1], although Yahoo and other sites are still fine.

Most net posts on this subject are one or two years old but now at least 4 of us all started having this problem yesterday. Seems pretty clear that Google have changed something.

PS Like Junior Crooks I also find the problem is only with IE and Opera. Did not test extensively but Chrome, FF and safari seemed ok