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Something annoying

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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?

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Reply #26 from Stardock Forums Top

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 ?

Reply #27 from WinCustomize Forums Top

 

Quoting Garzini, reply 26
let the thumbnail enlarge before clicking, you do not get the redirect message.
 

Quoting Garzini, reply 26
Moshi and JuniorCrooks, can you test this to see if it is the same on your machines ?

From the OP:

If I hover on the image until it enlarges and then click on it all is fine.
 

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Reply #28 from WinCustomize Forums Top

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.

Reply #29 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting yrag, reply 22
If you have a Restore Point prior to this, use it.

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

Reply #30 from WinCustomize Forums Top

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.

Reply #31 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Why can't I use spell check on this site?

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

Reply #32 from WinCustomize Forums Top

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.

Reply #33 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting JuniorCrooks, reply 30
Why can't I use spell check on this site?

IESpell

 For Chrome I use: Spell Checker for Chrome 0.9.2.8

Reply #36 from WinCustomize Forums Top

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.

Reply #37 from WinCustomize Forums Top

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.

Reply #38 from WinCustomize Forums Top

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.

Reply #39 from Elemental Forums Top

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.

Reply #40 from Elemental Forums Top

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

Reply #41 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting xoggoth, reply 39
Seems pretty clear that Google have changed something.

Unless some recent MS security update for IE managed to bork something...... ;)

Reply #42 from Elemental Forums Top


But the problem is also in Opera. The other person on the forum reported it in Firefox although the problem has gone today.

Reply #43 from WinCustomize Forums Top

No doubt the problem is with Google Images itself.

Reply #44 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I have not tried Firefox or chrome yet but Just downloaded Pale Moon and the problem exist with it too. I did however import things from IE so that might be the problem with Pale Moon.

I am just glad that I feel a little bit less of a jackass.

Reply #45 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting JuniorCrooks, reply 44
I am just glad that I feel a little bit less of a jackass.

So....which bit of a jackass are you still feeling.....

....and doesn't the jackass mind? ....;)

Reply #46 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I use FireFox all the time JC, it does not have the issue, and neither should PaleMoon technically as it is a derived from FireFox's code.  Might be that you imported settings like you said though.

 

Reply #47 from Elemental Forums Top

I have had this problem for a few days too. In FF, Chrome, IE, and I just DL Pale Moon did not import any thing and it did it with that too. After doing a bit of research, from what I found, It's all on Google, more or less it affects all browsers, but not everyone's. What they did was watch  Cheech & Chong's Up In Smoke and now eat Hash Brownies and do swats of that Calif. Sensi Bud all day.

LOL I just did a Google Didn't know if I spelled Sensi right I clicked on an Image and it came up with no redirect

 

Reply #48 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I checked both IE and Chrome and it happens with both of them but not with FF.