Unwanted sites opening after Googling

ellay864

My OH's laptop has started opening sites we don't want!! We google a word/phrase and get the usual list of sites, but when we click on one, instead of opening the link it opens something else totally randomly - not !!!!!! stuff, not anything that seems to be trying to sell us stuff, just anything weird and wonderful and totally unrelated to what we're searching on
He's checked that it's set to search web, and not to anything specific - as far as we know it has the same settings as mine which behaves perfectly normally.
We don't get the self-perpetuating pop ups like some dodgy sites do, just opens something for no reason and it's just bloody irritating having to keep going back to try again (and again and again and again sometimes)
Anyone who can shed any light or help us get rid will have our eternal gratitude

pcombo

:P you would complain if you searched a site on google and it took you to a site full of viruses .

Cant do right from wrong lol.

ellay864

errrrr not sure what you're saying...I may be blonde but not sure what I'm missing here
I'm not saying anything about viruses - just the fact I click on a link to get to the homepage for a local restaurant and get an american denim manufacturer instead isn't helpful and on the umpteenth time gets bloody irritating :huh:

The_Grandmaster

Instructions written by alienRIK:

Download MALWAREBYTES (Make sure you click 'DOWNLOAD LATEST VERSION')
http://www.filehippo.com/download_ma..._anti_malware/
Open malwarebytes and goto UPDATE and click 'check for updates'. After its updated goto SCANNER and click PERFORM FULL SCAN then click SCAN
Remove everything thats found (needs to be ticked)
Post the COMPLETE log here AFTER youve deleted everything it finds


reboot

Download HIJACK THIS (Make sure you click 'DOWNLOAD THIS VERSION')
http://www.filehippo.com/download_hijackthis/2894/
Click MAIN MENU then DO A SYSTEM SCAN AND SAVE A LOGFILE(Takes seconds) then post the log so we can see whats running
(do NOT do anything else with Hijack but scan and post the FULL log)

Chippychap

hI ELLAY.
I get the same thing.
Mine seems to take a random word from my imput and search sideways, opening some !!!!!! site.
Mine seems to have spread to me other search engines so i'm going to pinch your answers.
Am running malwarebytes now.
It was driving me bl@@dy crazy.:T