579865 - Mozilla redirects to pages when searching on google

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Reece Adamson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.366.2 Safari/533.4
Build Identifier: 4.0 beta 1

I have attached a word document with some examples of what happened today. I search on google and clicked the youtube link to search and it kept redirecting to random sites.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.search on google 
2.click youtube search link
3.redirects to different random sites
Actual Results:  
it redirects to the different random websites everytime

Expected Results:  
searched youtube for the video which i was searching for.

i Have attcahed a word documents with pictures to show the sites which it redirects to without any notice.

Comment 1

[Reece Adamson]

Attachment: Word documents includig a description of problem with images to support.

This shows what happens with images to support.

Comment 2

[Tsahi Asher]

Word documents are a harbinger of viruses. I doubt if many people opened your file, especially when considering how unlikely your bug is.
you can attach any image to this bug, just as you attached this file.

Comment 3

[Michele]

I am having this SAME exact problem and nobody is addressing this image.  If you Google this problem, there are MANY people with this problem.  Uninstalling and reinstalling a new version DOES NOT HELP.l

Comment 4

[Michele]

I meant addressing this PROBLEM.

Comment 5

[ljkel2]

Only Firefox redirects me automatically to some commercial sites after Google search. I am afraid that the problem is with Firefox, but Mozilla is not willing to fix it. Why?

Comment 6

[Petruta Horea [:phorea], Desktop QA]

Win Vista is no longer supported and all users accounts that were having this issue are now disabled, so I'm closing this as WFM.

However, here is the procedure to clean malware:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-caused-malware