Bmadams,

Hi, this problem seems to have hit quite a few people.

No i had no item like that on my desktop previously BUT i did have my desktop hijacked by some kind of virus/trojan/spyware...

Hi Judy thanks for your reply.

I left my computer off for about a week and i just turned it on today to run HJT and to download this Malwarebytes programme that you have advised.

I used google...

Whenever i run a search on google, the results appear normal but do not direct me to the correct page - instead i get redirected to another page; usually go.google or something like that. This...