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My iGoogle homepage is redirecting to Sitesure.com's ad for Network Soulutions?


I've scanned for viruses, trojans, etc, using a number of different programs and am coming up clean - my homepage wasn't hijacked but after Google loads for a few seconds it redirects.

My homepage is set to this: http://www.google.com/ig?hl=en
and the redirect goes to this:
http://sitesure.com/?lang=en&country=us&...

I'm at a loss as to why this is happening - I know that website is affiliated with Google Adsense but there's no way I'm accidentally clicking an ad on my page. It's a consistent redirect.

Any ideas?

The programs you used did it include Spybot S&D?
Look at the BHO & Active X in Spybot also
(USE FIREFOX!)

All you have to do is delete "This Day in History" from your igoogle page. It has been hacked. Just click the little x on that gadget.

UPDATE:
I was able to delete the "This Day in History" gadget by repeatedly trying to access my page. It let me in once, and I zapped it. I had tried AdAware Free, but that didn't help at all. Sorry....good luck!

The same thing is happening to me today, and clearing history has not helped. It happens on ANY computer in the house so it seems to be a problem with igoogle getting hacked and not something vile living on my machine. How do you clear the day or any settings at igoogle if you can not get to the account????

It's happening to me as well, even when I use Firefox to navigage to google.com/ig.

I can't even get to configure igoogle because it won't stay on the page long enough for me to remove "this day in history" as one answerer has said to do.

HELP!

It appears that if you have a Google Ad-On called "This day in history" is a rouge Add-On and is hijacking browsers to the suresite.com site.

If you cannot be quite on the draw when you launch your iGoogle, when you launch into your iGoogle hit the RED X STOP BUTTON. locate this day in history ad-on and DELETE! If you cannot get it this way, see instructions below.

Download Spybot Search and Destory, (see link below) and run it. I would advise your anti virus is up to date, if this does not resolve your issue visit link 2 below.

If you infected try the solutions I have provided here and inform me if it helps or not

Hit the browser's stop button before igoogle page loads and remove the "one day in history" gadget.

Before igoogle redirects hit the stop button and delete the add-on. Someone already said this, but I wanted to say that I did it and it worked great! Thanks for all the help.

It appears that the iGoogle add-on "This day in history" has been hacked. So it needs to be deleted from your iGoogle page. That's tough because the page barely starts loading when you are rudely redirected.
So this is what I did. I put my finger on the monitor screen approximately where the "X" button appears on "This day in history" (Top right hand corner of add-on window). I next repeatedly reloaded the page and each time I readjusted my finger until I was right next to the "X". Next I clicked on the "X" until the add-on was deleted and the page loaded normally, albeit without "This day in history". This worked for me, hope it works for you!

This took care of it for me without having to run any spyware programs or anything:

Open IE and click on Tools>Internet Options>Security Tab> Click on
Restricited Sites> click on the Site button> Type in www.sitesure.com
and click on Add. this adds sitesure.com as a restriced site and will
not allow IE to open that site. This fixed my problem and I am able
to get to my igoogle homepage without being redirected.

Yeah, this was uber annoying. Instead of doing the probably smarter thing and downloading an anti-spyware app, I used a more brute, lame technique.

I found the keyboard shortcut for my browser to navigate back to my igoogle page. I remembered which column the crappy add-on was. So, I placed my mouse arrow close to the x on the first add-on in that column. Then I hammered the back shortcut and used the .5 sec before the redirect to delete all the add-ons in that column. Eventually I deleted the rogue one. Ha! I know, super lame, but the problem is gone. Yay. Most of those add-ons are crappy anyway.

On a related note, I was able to get to the igoogle preferences, but unable to delete any add-ons from the preferences page. IMHO, that's equally or more lame than the rogue add-on and/or my technique.

Thanks for the helpful info.

I removed "This Day In History" from my iGoogle page and it worked. Took me about ten tries to grab the "x", though.

Thank you SO MUCH, whoever figured this out. I have spent all day doing everything from reprogramming my router to going into ipconfig to running NAV, Spybot S&D and SpyDoctor half a dozen times. "Thanks", Google. Sheesh.

did exactly like KOSTAS Z says and it worked perfectly!

thank you very much KOSTAS!

I had the same problem and I just fixed it today. What you have to do is clear all of your browsing history, and make sure you check the box for "clear add-ons..." To do this, open up internet explorer and go to "tools." Then go to "internet options," and under "Browsing History," click on "delete." Then a window will pop up and ask which parts you want to delete. Here you should click on "Delete All," and a small window will pop up asking if you are sure you want to delete this. Make sure to check the box that says "also delete fies and settings stored by add-ons," and then click "ok." Finally, close internet explorer, reopen it, and the problem should be fixed. You may need to reset your igoogle preferences at this time.

Trust me, I had the same problem this morning and it worked. Hope this helps!

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