IE keeps rerouting me to "Powersearch"

Lately I’ve been trying to get to some things on my favourites list (and things I click from a google search) and I get rerouted to XXX.commonname.com/en/PowerSearch/ (link deliberated broke) suggesting a new “search” for what I was looking for. If I do a search from here the page I was looking for comes up but now I gotta look at it framed within the powersearch page!! WTF? Netscape has no problem going straight to the address. Ad-Aware has turned up nothing and I can’t imagine what settings I could have changed to make this occur.

Any suggestion? (other than the call to boycott p-wersearch) Me getting mightily p-o’ed.

Spybot found more things for me than did AdAware.

Hi CarnalK
Close all Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer browser windows
Go to your start menu and select “Settings”, “Control Panel”
Select “Add/Remove Programs”
Select CommonName from the list and hit the add/remove button
Once the uninstall message displays, reboot your computer
CommonName is now uninstalled!
Daizy

What version of Ad Aware are you running?

With Ad-Aware 5.83, I was having much better luck using Spybot - Search and Destroy, as hawthorne noted. I have, however, seen several people mention that the newer Ad-Aware 6.0 has been doing a better job of getting rid of programs that rediriect your browser.

One more vote here for Spybot. It’s free, it’s easy, and it works.

http://download.com.com/3000-2144-10122137.html

Thanks tonnes all. Esp Daizy, had no idea it would be sitting there all obvious. :wink:

I will also take the advice and switch to Spybot.

Honestly what were they thinking? Just upping their visit counter? It seemed like 10-20% of my favourite list/search results was sending me there. Outrageous!

Thanks again.

You’re most welcome CarnalK
Happy to hear you got it all sorted. You might want to open a browser window…go up to tools…then internet options…and under the advanced tab…ensure you’ve got no check marks beside “Enable install on demand”.
I’m still a fan of Ad-aware (updated to 6), though I’ve heard good things about Spybot as well.

Daizy

Thanks again. How did that get check marked! grumble, damn multi-user computer.