I'm new to the forum and I have a problem or two. I am clicking on a hyperlink that should take me to a site where I can sign up to possibly mystery shop ( I can hear the groans. Just trying it out). Anyway, when the hyperlink is clicked, I am sent to the proper URL, but the site onlyy lists places where I can spend money on products or services related to mystery shopping. I know it might be that the site owners intended to send me there, but I don't think that is the case. I'm waiting on contact from them in response to my question to that effect. I believe the URL is somehow being renamed (tho not in the address line of my browser). Is this possible. The URL IS the correct URL that I'm clicking on. If it helps, the URL is
http://www.mysteryshoppinginfo.com/subshops.html. Through reading the information at the beginning of the forums, and some info on the virus thread, I downloaded ccleaner and used it. It found two registry problems. One said Registry Key Hkey_local_machine\software\altnet.
The other was HKEY_USERS-1-5-21-220523388-115176313-682003330-1004\software\microsoft\InternetExplorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_
LOCALMACHINE_LOCKDOWN\iexplorer.exe!=w=1. Do I need to go into registry and delete these or are they harmless or even usefu even tho ccleaner presented them as an intrusion (my interpretation). I'll present my hardware here
Compaq Presario R3000
Windows XP svc pack 2
80 gig hard drive
Firefox browser
384 mb of ram
Thanks for any help. Very frustrating being redirected (if that's what it turns out to be)