IE6 and hijacked URL's

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BAD

I use IE6 and recently I've noticed that some of my url's are redirected to
www.flashlightsearch.com. They tell me the URL doesn't exist, etc. But, it
is a good URL and I retry and go directly to the URL. I feel I'm being
highjacked to this search engine. How can I keep this from happening. If I
do put in an invalid URL can I select a default search engine?

Thanks.
 
BAD said:
I use IE6 and recently I've noticed that some of my url's are redirected to
xxx.flashlightsearch.com. They tell me the URL doesn't exist, etc. But, it
is a good URL and I retry and go directly to the URL. I feel I'm being
highjacked to this search engine. How can I keep this from happening. If I
do put in an invalid URL can I select a default search engine?

Thanks.
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http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/adware.memorymeter.html

HTH

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Thanks. The Symantec site got me on the right track. I downloaded Adware
and found and deleted the little devil, MemoryMeter.

Thanks.
 
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