Search query hijacks and redirection: What you need to know

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Search query hijacks and redirection: What you need to know

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On my wife's PC running Win XP and using bing as the search engine, I was doing a search that evidently was redirected as I was taken to a Century Link search engine page. Century Link is the new name for Quest by the way.
But being greeted by that page instead of the one from Bing tells me my ISP is redirecting some if not all searches through it's own search engine.

Bruce B

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Flash,

I get that. I mean I got that.

Back to the value of using the hosts file to keep control.

Questions? Need I say more?

Bruce

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