Occasionally, my google search results will redirect to a spam site, like doubleclick.net, some search engine I've never heard of, or some website that uses an octet-style address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.
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Spybot not detecting GOOGLE REDIRECT hack.
Occasionally, my google search results will redirect to a spam site, like doubleclick.net, some search engine I've never heard of, or some website that uses an octet-style address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.
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See here:
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See here:
http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=60587
It's a false positive and will be fixed Wednesday. Thanks S&D team, for being on top of this!
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