{"id":36,"date":"2012-03-14T13:07:59","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T17:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/getting-strange-results-from-your-google-searches"},"modified":"2012-03-14T13:07:59","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T17:07:59","slug":"getting-strange-results-from-your-google-searches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"Getting strange results from your Google searches?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341bfac253ef016302d541b2970d-800wi\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Screaming at pc\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341bfac253ef016302d541b2970d\" src=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341bfac253ef016302d541b2970d-300wi\" style=\"width: 300px; margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Screaming at pc\" \/><\/a>For the past few weeks, I have been having trouble with my Google searches.<\/p>\n<p>The links on the search results were being hijacked and I was being redirected to non related sites. This was a huge pain as I use search engines constantly every day. This happened with every search engine I used, not just Google.<\/p>\n<p>I would search for silver powder and would get a list of actual suppliers, but when I would click on the link, I would get redirected to a home loan scheme or a link farm of some sort that had nothing to do with my search terms.<\/p>\n<p>My Avg systen was blissfully unaware that anything was wrong and showed nothing out of the ordinary.<\/p>\n<p>SOLUTION<\/p>\n<p>I downloaded and installed <a href=\"http:\/\/download.cnet.com\/Microsoft-Security-Essentials\/3000-2239_4-10969260.html\" target=\"_self\">Microsoft Security Essentials<\/a> and in 4 minutes it had spotted a file called: Win32\/PossibleHostsFileHijack and I was able to download a fix from the Microsoft site in minutes and it cleared the problem up immediately.<\/p>\n<p>If your searches are going astray, you might want to check out Microsift Security Essentials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past few weeks, I have been having trouble with my Google searches. The links on the search results were being hijacked and I was being redirected to non related sites. This was a huge pain as I use &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=36\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1771,1767],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3R4iK-A","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}