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wjay3 - Jul 7, 2005 - 11:13 am

When I go on the internet and try to go to different websites like
www.doteasy.com I automatically get redirected to some kind
of family tree website. Is this some kind of virus on my computer?

William

bobw - Jul 7, 2005 - 1:21 pm

Hi William

Are you running Tiger using Widgets? The Weather widgets? If you are, try changing the address to another city.
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wjay3 - Jul 8, 2005 - 11:40 am

No, I'm still running Panther 10.3.8

William

bobw - Jul 8, 2005 - 11:59 am

William

Open Terminal (in Utility folder) and paste this in and hit return;

lookupd -flushcache

type - exit when done and then quit Terminal. Restart and try the web site.
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wjay3 - Jul 10, 2005 - 1:46 pm

The Terminal trick didn't work.
I typed lookud -fushcache
then I typed exit and I quit Terminal and Restarted.
No luck.
Still when I go to certain websites I get re-directed to some kind of family tree website. Even when I logout of OS X
and login to my wife's user account, I get re-directed to that same family tree
website.

bobw - Jul 10, 2005 - 1:51 pm

William

'I typed lookud -fushcache'

should be 'lookupd -flushcache'

In any case, download Yasu (free) from here;

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/21674

Use that to clear all caches, history and cookies. Restart and try.
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wjay3 - Jul 14, 2005 - 3:32 pm

Bob,
I typed in the correct command this time but
clearing the cache didn't work. Now it's getting
worse, almost every website that I try to go to
automaticlly redirects me to a website called
www.myfamily.com. Are you sure this is not some
kind of internet virus. This has never happened to
me in all the years I've been on a Mac.
I also have an old PC that I connected to the internet
and It does not have this problem at all.

HELP,
Any other suggestion?

William

bobw - Jul 14, 2005 - 4:34 pm

William

Try deleting the Cookies in the browser.
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wjay3 - Jul 15, 2005 - 3:37 am

Nope, already tried it in Safri and Explore. It didn't do the trick.

William

bobw - Jul 15, 2005 - 11:36 am

William

Look in the Network PreferencePane > Built-in Ethernet and see if there's anything in the server or search domain fields.
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