Redirection Problems on a New PC

[boag]

Ok, I just got a brand spanking new laptop, its an HP Pavilion G series.

Its been working wonderfully out of the box, the only little detail that is bothering me right now is some redirection problemss that seem to affect the machine in general.

for example If I type Google, I get sent to Google ES

If I type youtube, it sends me to parallels plesk panel.

im pretty sure this might be a problem with the host file, but there was nothing there.

I ran a scan with Malwarebytes Anti Malware and it came back clean.

If anyone has any prior experience with this I would be most thankful so I dont have to do a deep dive to search for what is wrong.

 

[mad825]

Tried clearing the local internet files such as the cookies and temp files?

 

[DoPo]

Use a different browser? Also try pinging the sites and see if you're actually visiting the right ones - ShowIP [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/showip/] for Firefox shows you the IP of the site you visited - see if it matches what ping (you can also try nslookup) reports.

EDIT: Now that I had some time to think about it (had to run do something quickly), I'm thinking something is going wrong with the requests. I'm working under the assumption that you have Windows 7.

Can you tell me if other computers hooked on the same Internet connection have problems? If they do, it may have something to do with your router/modem/something.

However, I'm assuming you've tested that and there wasn't a problem, so if that is the case, then it's the laptop (shocking, I know). Putting aside malware, it would be either the browser or the operating system. Try running ipconfig /flushdns in the command prompt. This would clear your system's DNS cache, thus hopefully clearing up the issue. Also, check if you aren't actually running through a proxy or VPN.

If you are suspecting malware - download Malwarebytes and HijackThis from a different computer. Then reboot the laptop into Safe Mode and use those to scan. You can also try going to the Internet Options (or whatever it was called in the Control Panel) to see if the proxy isn't set to be 127.0.0.1 or something like that. That is a very good sign that your connection was hijacked.