Something annoying
Saturday, August 25, 2012 by JuniorCrooks | Discussion: Internet
This might be one for yrag. Since yesterday I have been experiencing this
Redirect Notice
The previous page is sending you to http://thechive.com/2010/01/19/custom-67-mustang-obsidian-14-photos/.
If you do not want to visit that page, you can return to the previous page.
The first link is only an example, It happens when I click on any picture and it only happens with google images. If I hover on the image until it enlarges and then click on it all is fine. It does it with other browsers too or at least it does with opera. If I use yahoo as the search engine and click on images it works fine. I don't believe it to be malware or a rootkit issue. I have done various scan and all come up clean. It appears to be a google thing. I have cleared my Internet cache and it had no effect. I am using internet 8 and perhaps if I went to Internet 9 the problem would go away but I had 9 and hated it. It was buggy and slower then version 8.
Now before you just tell me to switch search engines think about it. I can just set yahoo as my home page but that does not really fix the problem. There must be a reason why this just began to happen over night. Nothing was downloaded to my knowledge in that short of time, no fishy sites was I browsing and I checked add ons to see if they were the culprit. No amount of searching google has helped. I have read articles of others who have experienced the same issue. Most do not give a solution or say common sense things like clear your cache but those solutions have not done squat.
Anyone else experiencing this or have in the past?
Reply #2 Saturday, August 25, 2012 11:10 AM
I'm not sure what your issue is exactly. Is it that you're getting that 'redirect notice'? Sorry, if I am missing your point.
I'm wondering if it's an IE issue. Maybe a new safety feature alerting you that you're being redirected? I use FF and Opera and can't remember the last time I used IE for anything. I never had anything like this crop up on any browser. Hopefully, it's not anything 'harmful'.
***I just opened IE to see if I had the same issue and nothing. Could it be an add-on like WOT or maybe your anti-virus that has a setting to warn you when you are being redirected?
Reply #4 Saturday, August 25, 2012 11:44 AM
Hey guys thanks. Doc I will try what you posted.
Po my problem is I cannot click on images using google without receiving the redirect message. Before I simply clicked and the image page would load which is how it is suppose to work. Now I have to hover on the image until it enlarges then when I click the page opens. I do have wot enabled but it had not caused me any problems before and the only thing that has changed with my antivirus was that it updated the program a few days ago. I suppose that could have something to do with it but I doubt it. It does this with opera too, I have not tried chrome or FF.
I have scanned with malwarebytes and my antivirus but nothing is detected.
I should ad that i am not actually getting redirected. I am just getting the notice. If I click on the link in the notice the page I want to view loads. I am not being redirected to any sites I don't want to see by clickiing any links.
Reply #5 Saturday, August 25, 2012 12:02 PM
I'd try FF and any other browser you have installed. If it's doing it with more than one browser, I would be inclined to think that one of your malware, spyware, or antivirus programs has recenlty updated with something that keeps giving you this warning.
I would also check to see if any malware or antivirus 'toolbars' have been installed. I recently ran into an issue twice with AVG toolbar being installed on my PC through other programs (one was a recent update of Any Video Converter and it was a pain in the ass to remove the toolbar add-on from Chrome especially)
Do you use and is it possible it's a feature of Windows Defender or any Window/MS protection?
Reply #6 Saturday, August 25, 2012 12:11 PM
^All good thoughts. Maybe a screenshot of the notification?
Any recent antimalware updates?
Reply #7 Saturday, August 25, 2012 1:12 PM
I appreciate your help guys. There is not much more of a screenshot then what I copied and pasted in the post. It is just a blank screen exept it has this wrote on it.
Redirect Notice
The previous page is sending you to http://thechive.com/2010/01/19/custom-67-mustang-obsidian-14-photos/.
If you do not want to visit that page, you can return to the previous page.
Again the link is just one example. It is always the link of the image I am trying to view. Seth I did that scan and nothing was detected. What I may try is a different virus software. I use to use MSE and I have lately been using Avast free version. I never had this problem with advast before but like I have said it recently updated the software. I will nuke it and try something different and get back to you guys.
Reply #8 Saturday, August 25, 2012 1:28 PM
JC - take a look at this:
http://www.techspot.com/community/topics/google-redirect-and-avast-not-updating.125083/
I'm thinking it's your Avast, JC.
Try uninstalling it with CCleaner and then cleaning the registry. Make sure to back the registry up, then reboot.
See what happens then.
Reply #9 Saturday, August 25, 2012 1:42 PM
With recent changes to Avast, it had gotten to the point of slowing my boot time by 60-80 seconds, confirmed in Perfmon Boot times went back to normal as soon as Avast was gone. I was a happy use for several years up to that point.
I now use ASC Pro with AV.
Reply #10 Saturday, August 25, 2012 2:06 PM
Well it was not Avast causing the problem. I nuked it with ccleaner and cleaned the registry. Even before installing new antivirus I tried images and I have the same problem. Time to look at something else.
Reply #11 Saturday, August 25, 2012 4:37 PM
I found this JuniorCrooks
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/02/google-redirect-notice.html
Reply #12 Saturday, August 25, 2012 4:51 PM
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/02/google-redirect-notice.html
Thank you kindly but I had read that article and it does not give a solution, only an explanation. I want to know what changed over night to create this problem. So far nothing I have tried to fix it works. My only solution is to change search providers and do away with google altogether.
Reply #13 Saturday, August 25, 2012 5:25 PM
try this article then it seems to have more removal or fix info to it
http://www.brighthub.com/internet/security-privacy/articles/73919.aspx
Reply #15 Saturday, August 25, 2012 10:15 PM
I never thought to do a reset but after doing so I still have the same problem. It can't be an internet problem because it only does it with google. If I use yahoo images load with no redirect message. It has to have something to do with google. I yet to look at winmonsters link but i will do that now.
Reply #16 Saturday, August 25, 2012 10:22 PM
...or you could listen to yrag....![]()
Reply #17 Saturday, August 25, 2012 10:38 PM
Quoting JuniorCrooks,
reply 15
I never thought to do a reset but after doing so I still have the same problem. It can't be an internet problem because it only does it with google. If I use yahoo images load with no redirect message. It has to have something to do with google. I yet to look at winmonsters link but i will do that now.
...or you could listen to yrag....
Huh? I did listen to him and did what he said but it never fixed the problem.
Reply #18 Sunday, August 26, 2012 12:00 AM
Don't think for a moment you don't have 'something'....
Start > Search > type: C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
On prompt, open the HOSTS file in Notepad
Delete all the lines of IP addresses in the text document except for "127.0.0.1 localhost".
Note: It may show:
# 127.0.0.1 localhost
# ::1 localhost
That is acceptable.
Start > Search > type: msconfig
Under the Startup tab make certain nothing strange is starting with Windows.
Re-boot
Reply #19 Sunday, August 26, 2012 12:42 AM
# 127.0.0.1 localhost
# ::1 localhost
That is all there was so nothing to delete. I looked at startup and there is nothing strange there that could be causing the problem.
I still do not believe I have something. This happened after puting the computer to sleep and I had not even been using the internet. I opened no fishy sites or downloaded anything. I have scanned with multiple software. I thought it was the Avast update so i got rid of Avast and installed Ad-Aware Pro and it is still doing the same thing.
Reply #20 Sunday, August 26, 2012 1:05 AM
If you think you don't have 'something' than ..... well..... I guess you don't have 'something'.
I am getting a bit old and dim-witted, but perhaps you could explain to me why only you have this? (at the very least, share the sand so I can get my head in)
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Reply #1 Saturday, August 25, 2012 11:05 AM
I don't think it's thechive.com (http://www.avgthreatlabs.com/sitereports/domain/thechive.com#analytics)
Have you tried cleaning out your computer's temporary files?
If that doesn't help, and just to feel more secure you could try this: http://www.freedrweb.com/cureit/?lng=en
Download Dr.Web CureIt to the desktop.
Reboot your computer to allow files that were in use to be moved/deleted during reboot.
Not saying this will work or that you have a virus, but redirects smell like that. Oh... and you won't have to uninstall the download.