June 23, 2004

• OK, here
• Works fine for me.
• I'm not seeing anything odd, and I haven't noticed anything strange today. I would say its more likely that your computer has been infected than that Google has been hacked, but you never know.
• do me a favor, type in fireworks terminology just like that, no quotes, see what you get
• Nothing strange. Sorry, SideDish.
• so she's like contagious?
• nothing out of the ordinary here, either.
• ewww, it must be my machine! my machine is BETRAYING ME!!! under my fingertips lurks evil! *shudder* so how come my trusty SpyBot can't clean this mess up? (sorry if that's a dumb question, i'm such a technodoofus)
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• I got what surlsie got.
• Ditto. Normalcy prevails.
• What? Nobody's started screaming about "best of the web" or all that jazz, yet? Damn, people are getting sloppy around here. I once went crazy because this website had pop-ups, and it turned out it was adware. I felt silly afterwards, but I'm no clean of that shiznaz. The real question, of course, is why you're looking up information that is clearly a threat to national security.
• this sort of behaviour is especially common when searching for things like hotels or some particular brand names, or some sorts of household goods. What appears to be happening is that some of these shopping sites are manipulating their sites so they show up high on google. I just repeated your search and got a series of relevant fireworks sites ... http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=fireworks+terminology&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&meta=
• The real question, of course, is why you're looking up information that is clearly a threat to national security. Only the terrorists use google...
• Sounds like you have had your search settings hijacked, probably by Malware/Spyware. I'd download and run Spybot and AdAware and run them both. Find them on Tucows.com. Also follow the info on recovering from Spyware at: http://spyware.surferbeware.com/browser-hijack.htm . Make sure you have installed all necessary critical updates. When you get sick of doing this a thousand times, consider the following editorial: http://daringfireball.net/2004/06/broken_windows. On preview, since when did Monkeyfilter = Windows Tech Support?
• i'm sorry, mec! i didn't mean to turn the lavendar into a tech discussion. i just wondered if this was Googlewide or SideDishwide.
• Disshy, you're not going mad. I get that for a lot of things too - although I just searched for fireworks terminology, and got what surly got. But things where the search term includes something generic that's frequently shopped for online, I often get the first batch of links going to what appear to be low-quality website/search directories with little relevance to my search. It may just be my imagination, but I have the definite impression that it's happened less since I switched from IE to Firefox a few weeks ago. I have no idea why that could be, unless it's a horrible spyware conspiracy, so it probably is my joy at pop-up free heaven going overboard... On preview: what everybody else IN THE WORLD said.
• Sidedish, to solve the question of whether your browser has been hijacked, download Hijackthis, do a scan, and save the log and post it up here and I can let you know if anything looks fishy.
• Sidedish -- if you're on a Windows system open your /system32/drivers/etc file. You shouldn't be seeing anything more than "127.0.0.1 localhost" unless you've added anything to it or you have ad blockers maintaining it. This is where a lot of the URL hijackings take place, and it's usually very obvious if stuff is squirrely in here. Also agree with what mecurious said about having the latest malware updates... I use AdAware and the latest definition file when I have a problem to repair damage done to the registry/startup. Usually the definition file has to be less than 1-2 weeks old before it works, as the scumware authors are keeping their stuff cutting-edge daily.
• hmm, genial, that's weird, it won't let me post it here. too long maybe?
• (i emailed it to you instead genial. thank you thank you for this! *kisses*)
• (p.s. that's a very cool hijacking scanning thingie)
• Make sure you update spybot, and go ahead and download adaware too. It doesn't hurt to have both. Finally, if you are using Internet Explorer STOP! Go to www.mozilla.org and download mozilla or firefox. Honestly, I don't see how people use IE. Here on campus where all the lab computers use IE, it has gotten to the point where I've installed firefox on the online storage they give us and start it up over the network. Every time I use ie, its all popups and I want to do a google search and the search box isn't there, and a million little other things that just ie just doesn't have.
• Sidedish, you've got mail! /annoying aol voice
• The real question, of course, is why you're looking up information that is clearly a threat to national security. Only the terrorists use google... I have a theory that Google is a project of the Pentagon to monitor the thought patterns of every internet user in the world... */large men in black suits rush in and haul Cincinatus to Gitmo for interrogation/*
• mecurious : because SideDish is a monkey tried and true; that's why. Side: see also the ask.mefi on the same topic -- similar answers there.
• Absolutely nothing weird.
• When I google "god" I get all kinds of religious crap. I demand Google cease this assault on my skepticism.
• Honestly, I don't see how people use IE Corporate don't wanna let us use anything else.
• Corporate don't wanna let us use anything else. The solution to this is two boxes of Krispy Kreme for your local IT guys at least twice a month for them to look the other way. I was admin of my own machine in no time.
• The BSA has been saturating my area with commercials. 'Did you know that disgruntled employees tell us you've been copying software?' like commercials and mailings that've got Corporate so paranoid that Krispy Kreme herself couldn't get IT to install Minesweeper.
• merc- i don't think many of us here mind about the tech discussions. not everyone has the time to stay current with their MCSEs, N+/A+, MCSDs, and MickeyD's... a little tech talk here and there helps to keep the stuff fresh in our heads. though i also understand how lame it is to have friends & family always pestering you for free tech support... you can't exactly change your great-uncle harold $50/hour to do this or that. i was going to ditto what surlyboi said until i saw blogrot's comment. i haven't seen any of those commercials. that sucks, though, for you guys.
• i just wanted to say thank you thank you to all you techiemonkeys for the help! especially genial, a true monkeypal. i realize it's like cornering a doctor at a cocktail party and saying, "i have this rash..." ha! thanks for your patience and tips. my tech at work gave me a new hard drive last night, the other one was sooooo corrupted. i have been known to corrupt a few young men in my time, but never a computer. whaddya know.