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Attached are my explorer settings.
I did everything you both suggested, with no new results.
When I go to a page that does not exist, i see it trying to go to the correct microsoft search page for a second or two, then it says it’s going to about:blank, and then the linklist page pops up again.
I found hosts and lmhosts.sam in the system32/drivers/etc folder, both had no entries in them. (I did find a hosts.bak that had some entries to various malicious hosts but i’m sure this was created by one of the programs i’ve been using to clear this stuff up).
Is there any other way that a browser can be tricked into redirecting somewhere else? Because as far as I can tell it’s not a problem of not knowing what search page to use, it just the real search page is somehow resolving to linklist.
Thanks for all your help so far, i’ve gotten rid of a good deal of stuff and this is not the end of the world, but if i’m having the problem i’m sure many others are as well!