only today, searching on google, eg seach for "Blake V8" thats my name for DJing and dance music producing. where as the first two results were bebo and myspace, they still are however:

type in the search, and the brwser goes blank, then a number appears, eg 4915, in plian black text, nothing else, screen goes blank again, then goes to the URL http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-us&q=blake+v8 (nothing unusual looking there)

and here's the result (notice the last one)...

MySpace.com - Blake V8 - 26 - Male - UK - www.myspace.com/blakev8
MySpace profile for Blake V8 with pictures, videos, personal blog, interests, information about me and more.
www.top-uk.co.uk - 105k - Cached - Similar pages

Blake V8 Biography, Blake V8 History, Blake V8 Bio, Blake V8 ...
You are in : HOME : B : Blake V8 : Biography ... Biography Blake V8. Biography not available. Search in other languages: ...
www.kdirectory.co.uk - 13k - Cached - Similar pages

Blake V8 Tabs, Blake V8 Chords, Blake V8 Album Tabs, Blake V8 ...
You are in : HOME : B : Blake V8 : Tabs. Blake V8 : Tabs. Overview · Biography · Videos · Similar artist · Discography · Tabs · Lyrics · Tags ...
www.moxiesearch.com - 12k - Cached - Similar pages

akkiles vs blake v8
akkiles vs blake v8. ... http://www.tr-ance.com/forum/Rachel-Loren-For-All-Time- Akkiles-ve-Blake-V8-Mix-Future-State-Records-t270343.html (hits: 1)
couponmountain.co.uk - 3k - Cached - Similar pages

LocostBuilders
I am Blake V8, of Akkiles & Blake V8 true enough you won't have heard of us, but search google lol, we've only had the one release so far. ...
tds.seosun.net/go.php?sid=2 - 53k - Cached - Similar pages


the google page looks the same, but its not working right. got avast on the computer, it finds nothing and hasn't flagged anything up before

any ideas?

[Edited on 30/12/08 by blakep82]

JUST Tried the BLAKE V8 search and I get the my space / Bebo and Locost links

Looks like you have a Browser Hijack.

Check the Hosts file in folder

c:Windowssystem32driversetc

File is called hosts and can be opened with Notepad should look like this below and can be used to redirect the browser to website spoofs :
----------------
# Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host

127.0.0.1 localhost

cheers fella, here's mine

# Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host

127.0.0.1 localhost


looks the same any ideas what i should do with it? or is the example you posted of an infected one, which just happens to be the same as mine?

Try running adaware and hijack this. That should remove them.

Jon

i ran adaware once, it found something that loked like it could have been it (found over 190 things mostly cookies though, and 2 other things in the registry) deleted all them, then realised that although i just downloaded it today, it needed updating as the file list was from september, so updated it and running again now. its found another 25 things so far, its only half way through

I'd also try Spybot Search & Destroy.

Free and available here...

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

just tried Spybot Search & Destroy. found more stuff the other two didn't, but still doesn't fix it

now though, avast keep flagging up that its blocking access to a malicious site, IP address is 78.110.175.21, but it doesn't say how to remove whatever is trying to access it...

[Edited on 31/12/08 by blakep82]