Hey...if anyone has a moment & can help me that would be great. Thanks! My Internet Explorer loads fine and goes to my homepage (google) but when I type in a word to search instead of receiving various different and appropriate links I just see links to different search engines. Also, When I run the search, it's really slow and I get an about:blank pop up window and the send error report. If I just want to go to a site, IE works okay. It's also like that for other search engines like yahoo etc. I ran a virus check, spybot, and ad-aware, and I tried uninstall/reinstall but its still messed up. Example- Instead of having this: Categories: Reference > Education > ... > New York > Hofstra University Health > Mental Health > ... > Schools and Instruction Hofstra University Hofstra University is the largest private university on Long Island,New York. ... Hofstra Schools and Colleges. UCCE Information Sessions ... Description: The largest private university on Long Island, New York. Includes Schools of: Liberal Arts & Sciences,... Category: Reference > Education > ... > New York > Hofstra University www.hofstra.edu/ - 36k - Jan 3, 2004 - Cached - Similar pages I see: search for hofstra at blowsearch.com search for hofstra on 15 sites at crawler.com etc...

Try running hijeckthis that is the only program you havn't run. Hijackthis will show what operation is being run at start up and post that log on here and experts =) will direct you . It is likely a ad/spy/trojan are on your computer. Try online virus scan, trust me i know from expereinced.

i ran the hijack this n found two internet explorer things that were running with https for random search stuff, so i fixed those. the search engine stuff is good for now. THANKS a bunch. I wanted to post the hijack this scan report here so that u could have checked it however, i didn't know how to select then copy n paste it. I think most things are supposed to be there, here are the few things i wasn't totally sure about. HKLM\software\microsoft\internet explorer\search,customizesearch = HKCU\software\microsoft\internet explorer\search,toolbar,linksfoldername = URLSearchHook: (no name) - {8952A998-IE7E-4716-B23D-3DBE03910972} -(no file) should i delete them or leave them?