Uh ...

[bubosquared]

Is anyone else getting redirected to one of those "links pages" when they try to go to google or googleUK?

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[jaseroque.livejournal.com]

Your mood icon is making me think 'o rly?', which is kind of worrying, because I never did figure out what owls have to do with 'o rly' anyway. Also, Google is working fine for me.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Ah, seems like it may be something on the network here, then. Dammit, I need google for actual work!

[bondage-and-tea.livejournal.com]

Could it be spyware on your computer?

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Nope, network-wide thing. Now it's blocked by the company's webfilter, too. I'm confused.

Actually, maybe I will check for spyware. Could be that the filter is blocking the page we're being sent to.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

More confusion: while google.com and google.co.uk are both (redirected then?) blocked, google.be is fine. Which makes me think it's likely not that the filter is blocking google itself, because that'd just block all google variations, right?

[figg.livejournal.com]

possibly a dns problem.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Ahaaaa, yes, that could be it, quite possibly the DNS server we use here is messing up. That'd explain why it's the same problem in both IE and Firefox--same proxy. Thanks, that makes sense!

[wimmeke.livejournal.com]

Could still be spywhere.
If they messed with your hosts file they could redirect www.google.com to another site.
But if your coworkers have it too, then I doubt it's your hosts file. Unless it is a virus that has you all infected.

Both googles work fine for me, as for your hosts file, it should be under:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc just called hosts with no extention.

You can open that under notepad, it should tell that localhost should redirect you to 127.0.0.1

If you find any of the googles in there pointing to an ip adress, get rid of those lines and the looking up will be left to the dns servers once again.

[jaseroque.livejournal.com]

Everybody needs Google. ^_^