# IE keeps rerouting me to "Powersearch" **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 21, 2003, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-keeps-rerouting-me-to-powersearch/170053 "2003-04-21T15:54:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-keeps-rerouting-me-to-powersearch/170053/1 "2003-04-21T15:54:55Z")
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/](http://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. ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-keeps-rerouting-me-to-powersearch/170053/2 "2003-04-21T16:46:16Z")
Spybot found more things for me than did AdAware. ---
**Author:** ![Daizy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/46a35a/32.png) [@Daizy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daizy)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-keeps-rerouting-me-to-powersearch/170053/3 "2003-04-21T16:54:05Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-keeps-rerouting-me-to-powersearch/170053/4 "2003-04-21T17:04:36Z")
What version of Ad Aware are you running? With Ad-Aware 5.83, I was having _much_ better luck using [Spybot - Search and Destroy](http://security.kolla.de/), 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. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-keeps-rerouting-me-to-powersearch/170053/5 "2003-04-21T17:16:28Z")
One more vote here for Spybot. It’s free, it’s easy, and it works. [http://download.com.com/3000-2144-10122137.html](http://download.com.com/3000-2144-10122137.html) ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-keeps-rerouting-me-to-powersearch/170053/6 "2003-04-21T17:26:02Z")
Thanks tonnes all. Esp **Daizy** , had no idea it would be sitting there all obvious. 😉 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. ---
**Author:** ![Daizy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/46a35a/32.png) [@Daizy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daizy)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-keeps-rerouting-me-to-powersearch/170053/7 "2003-04-21T18:03:46Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie-keeps-rerouting-me-to-powersearch/170053/8 "2003-04-21T22:09:44Z")
Thanks again. How did that get check marked! grumble, damn multi-user computer.