whenever i type an address in my browser that doesn't exist or can't be displayed i'm being directed to a search engine (every time another one it seems) instead of getting the message
'this page can't be displayed

how do i get rid of this problem ?
[Edited 1/16/09 17:30pm]

I don't know

Why don't you use a search engine?

PANDURITO said:

like alta vista?

PANDURITO said:

ZombieKitten said:

no , being direhted to search.yahoo.com , search.dealio.com , urlseek.20vmb.net etc , etc

stop typing addresses that don't exist!

go change something in properties

abierman said:

ZombieKitten said:

and then what ?



i looked if they showed up in the registry but apparently they don't
[Edited 1/16/09 19:53pm]

people still use internet explorer?

yes , Firefox's too slow for my taste for surfing
but i use it sometimes for it's plug - ins
[Edited 1/16/09 22:34pm]

Try setting one particular that you favor. ( I love google) I have it set as "the one" at least then you end up somewhere?

Sounds like IE's been hijacked... it's a big pain in the ass to fix and the main reason why I only use Firefox now.

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

thanks for the reply

but how ?

my start up page isn't changed or anything
[Edited 1/17/09 3:35am]

RenHoek said:

yes , but you can get it too with Firefox

it seems to be Yahoo that's causing it

it says 'powered by yahoo search'
[Edited 1/17/09 4:22am]

Dewrede said:

Did you update Java or Adobe recently? Sometimes those automatically install a Yahoo Search bar unless you uncheck the option (I hate that...) and that could be the cause of your probs...

thanks , but no

they are really annoying indeed
[Edited 1/18/09 9:40am]

do you mean addresses that really don't exist or addresses like www.proince.org while you meant to go to www.prince.org . The latter is called cybersquatting, people buying addresses (gogle.com, yagoo.com, ...) and putting up an advertising/search page just to make money of it. The former is either caused by your browser (you can change that default behaviour) OR by your DNS server which relays you to a catch-all server when he can't resolve the web address to an existing IP address.

no , i don't mean that

thanks for your reply , i didn't know that

Try malwarebytes.org....download it, update it, run it....it's free !

thanks , it found a lot of things , also in the registry
the problem remains tho

thanks nonetheless , cool program
[Edited 1/20/09 11:46am]