Problems in IE and FF

I get Google every time

[McMohan]

Well this is getting weird. On IE and FF, if I try to open any site, only Google loads. Checked for spy/adware, but no help. Opera works just fine, but I can't use the Google toolbar on it. Uninstalled G toolbar from both IE and FF, still getting the same problem.

Any help is highly appreciated. Thanks.

[aphido]

You mean no other site will load at all? I would try and re-install both and look at using some different spyware utilities.

[BlobFisk]

Run AdAware and SpyBot and your virus scanner.

If this doesn't work, reinstall both browsers.

[McMohan]

Thanks for the suggestions.

Did Adware scan using one of the popular tools. (Not sure if I can mention the name here)
Unistalled IE.
Unistalled FF
Reinstalled IE.
Haven't installed FF (for let me get IE working first)

But the problem still persists.

Let me explain the problem in detail. If I open Google and search for something and open a page from the search result page, that results in a page with Google 404 error page (The requested URL /login was not found on this server.) If I copy that URI and paste in a new browser window, then that page opens. After couple of clicks within that site, all of a sudden Google 404 error comes. Then either I have to refresh that page 5-6 times to load that page or close that window, open a new window and go on till I get that 404 page once again.

Thanks for your time.

[encyclo]

That's a very strange case you've got there, McMohan...

>> The requested URL /login was not found on this server

Are you logged into Google in any way (like the /ig page or Gmail)? Can you disable Javascript and cookies and see if that makes a difference? Also, is there anything untoward in your Windows "hosts" file?

[McMohan]

encyclo, strange indeed :-)

Not logged into Google.
Checked hosts file and everything is normal there.
Disabled JS and cookies.

Problem still there! Guess formatting the system is the last resort?

[kaled]

Have you ever messed around with proxy settings?

A knacked proxy server could produce weird behaviour.

Check your proxy settings in IE and FF.

Kaled.