Hi ppl. Wonder if someone can advise.
A friend of mine is having google search and windows update problems on his XP machine. He is currently going through the 8 step plan and i'll post the logs as soon as these complete. AVG, Spybot, Spyhunter show no problems at all.
The strange problems are. when searching for certain things in google the results that come back are kinda strange and erratic. If he searches for "Windows update" in Google there is a delay before results are displayed and they come up as per attached pic "googledave.jpg" obviously incorrect with random links, sometimes referring to hottv.com and various other dodgy looking sites. if I search on my machine they are correct as per "googleme.jpg"
anyone heard of this before?
Also if he goes to start menu and trys to do a "windows update" from there internet explorer trys to send him to the VISTA update page even though he's on Windows XP?
see "update.jpg" attachment.
I'll post the logs ASAP guys just wanted to put the feelers out to see if anyone has ever heard of this before. I cant seem to find anything whilst searching but i'm maybe looking in the wrong places.
thanks...
A friend of mine is having google search and windows update problems on his XP machine. He is currently going through the 8 step plan and i'll post the logs as soon as these complete. AVG, Spybot, Spyhunter show no problems at all.
The strange problems are. when searching for certain things in google the results that come back are kinda strange and erratic. If he searches for "Windows update" in Google there is a delay before results are displayed and they come up as per attached pic "googledave.jpg" obviously incorrect with random links, sometimes referring to hottv.com and various other dodgy looking sites. if I search on my machine they are correct as per "googleme.jpg"
anyone heard of this before?
Also if he goes to start menu and trys to do a "windows update" from there internet explorer trys to send him to the VISTA update page even though he's on Windows XP?
see "update.jpg" attachment.
I'll post the logs ASAP guys just wanted to put the feelers out to see if anyone has ever heard of this before. I cant seem to find anything whilst searching but i'm maybe looking in the wrong places.
thanks...