Hi, I have been trying to provide some (limited) help to a friend with a brand spanking new Dell laptop running Vista, which has been doing the following: When a URL is typed into the browser (both IE7 and Firefox), it will do one of 3 things in a seemingly non-deterministic manner: 1. redirects to a valid page not seen by us before 2. redirects to an invalid page (domain might still be valid -- page not found) 3. redirects to a previously entered URL (plus the icon and the URL shown will not match) https seem to be unaffected by this. Neither homepage nor favourites have been affected. Things we have tried: - Uninstalling McAfee Viruscan - Disabling Windows Defender firewall and web protection features - Disabling the same for G Data Internet Security software - Disabling IPv6 option in Internet settings - Looking at the HOSTS file, which showed only localhost - Connecting with and without the provider's web proxy After reading a few posts I decided to run Hijack This to see if spy/malware could be the culprit, unfortunately I could not get Hijack This to print out a log (admittedly this may be a version issue, since we had not downloaded the beta version for Vista but used an earlier version instead), and so here are the relevant screen captures: http://www.rattus.net/~cy/hijackthi... http://www.rattus.net/~cy/hijackthi... Any ideas are most (desperately) welcome! I'm currently away from the affected computer but will provide further machine specs once available. My apologies for this. Cheers cyrat

Hi, As per previous post, I have the specs as follows: Dell Inspiron I6400 Intel Core 2 CPU 1.836 GHz RAM 2046 MB Vista Home Premium G Data Antivirenkit 2007 Hth and thanks in advance, cyrat