When I type in an address, another address comes up in front of mine. I have auto complete off. For example, if I type in:
www.yahoo.com, it turns to:
http://www.something.com/www.yahoo.com
How do I change this?

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When you have prefixs in front of the url it is bound to be yet another form of spyware or adware, unfortunately there seems to be a lot of different forms and tactics for hijacking internet users.

To remove this type of activity from your PC then have a search for software that detects and removes spyware from your PC - a good free piece of software that does removes spyware and is therefore worth looking at is Spybot.

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