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Originally Posted by Darqref
I'm using Firefox, but I've got a jscript virus that nothing I've used will detect and I haven't found any way to get rid of it. When I search for anything, the search results page appears then is immediately replaced by another page from something like photo7li.com When I turn off javascript, the error doesn't happen, but lots of things on pages I visit frequently don't work (including google maps.)
So I turn off javascript, do the search, and turn it back on again. I've found references to similar errors from previous years, but the solutions posted don't work for this one. While searching for a solution, I tried alternate searches from Yahoo and got the same result. I didn't try Bing, but only because I didn't like their page anyway.
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You're using Firefox? There's a plugin that causes search-engine hijacking, only I don't know which one. My wife had the same problem, and we googled for a solution. We tried many, including AV and Malwarebytes and several uninstall and reinstalls of Firefox. The thing was, she had half a dozen add-ins that she liked, and she'd reinstall those all at once, rather than doing it one at a time. We figured they were safe; they were from the Mozilla site. We finally refrained from reinstalling all the add-ins, except X-marks (which seems fine). The problem went away, and has not returned. Then she went on a long trip, and we never finished tracking down the culprit.
The only one I remember that she did not reinstall was one for Craigslist that caused an info popup on mouseover of a listing.
Anyway, you might try uninstalling your add-ins and see if that helps.