Sometimes when I want to go to youtube.com it takes me to youtube.com.net automatically.
Is this some sort of malware or something? I’m not really professional when it comes to viruses so I wouldn’t know…
I scanned with my anti spyware but it didn’t pick up anything so I’m going to try scanning with Avast next.
Does anyone know anything about this website? Thanks.
Does this site end up with the address ***infoweb.net/l/youtube.php ?
If so, and if you haven’t bookmarked it, it looks mighty like a redirect, and that shouldn’t happen.
I can’t remember, but the next time it happens I’ll notify you.
Also I don’t have that site bookmarked, it just redirects me there sometimes. I also just scanned using both spybot and malware bytes, both picked up nothing so I’m not so sure what to do.
It did this before, I just cleared my cache,saved passwords, history, etc. Then ran a full scan with all my security programs and it went away for awhile until today so I was just getting worried.
Thanks anyway.
It doesn’t redirect me it remains on youtube.com, firefox 3.0.8.
I’m also using that version of firefox…
I just scanned using avast yesterday but it didn’t pick up anything also.
Well it’s not really happening that much anymore, but thanks for everyones help. 
You’re welcome, if it does happen again gather as much information as you can.
Ok sorry for the late reply but I got it again.
The web address was http://www2.infoweb.net/l/youtube.php
I never bookmarked it and it just redirected me when I typed in youtube.com in the address bar.
Do you use any toolbars, Catwaffles? And if so, is this as a result of typing “youtube.com” into the toolbar search area, or typing it into the address bar?
I also use Firefox (no toolbars - I hate 'em!) and typing it into the address bar brings up the correct site. (please try that.)
Just trying to figure out some of the parameters that may have an effect when trying to replicate this.
Here’s another very good antispyware program that would be worth trying, to get a second opinion. The free version is the lower of the two downloads on that page. If you’ve used Spybot/MBAM etc this is similar in display and function. Sometimes SAS picks things up that MBAM misses. And vice versa. I have no idea which is better. Or even if one is better than the other. They are both top notch.
I’m not using toolbars (I hate them too!) but I am using firefox also. I type youtube.com into the address bar and once I press enter the link changes from youtube.com to that cheap website.
I’m using MBAM and Spybot, I scanned with both of them and both picked up nothing. I’ll try the SAS tommorow (It’s getting late here!) and hopefully it will get rid of this problem.
how about a boot-time scan with avast?
It’s odd that malwarebytes isn’t picking up on any of these re-directions…
Maybe SAS will find something that MBAM doesn’t.
Did you check your HOST file?
And do you know how to check your hosts file?
No I don’t xD
You could try Hostsxpert,download,unzip,and run it from wherever you downloaded it to.
Yep. Looks good. That should do what might be needed.
Let us know if you still have a problem after that; post to this thread, even if it’s several days (or weeks) later.
Okay I tried it and it seems to work so far.
Thanks for the help again.
Try typing this into Firefox address bar
com.
followed by Enter.
In my case I am redirected to infoweb, probably because FF autocomplete with “net”, so it issues a DNS request for “com.net” and this redirects this to infoweb.com.
It’s common to mistakenly append . to a URL, and your ringfinger is likely to fall on . just before you tap Enter,
so this mistake is common.