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Bitten by the redirect bug

Spam must really pay, or else it just appeals to people criminals whose egos must be continually jollied  by annoying harming others. See the search engine redirect virus/malware/whathaveyou:

Instead of getting the page you’re interested in, Google or some other search engine sends your click off to a paid advertising link of little use—except, presumably, to the spammer’s bank (or at least ego) account.

What’s worse is that the browser back button then doesn’t work. You can’t easily return to the search results. Sigh. One more roadkill accident to clean up on the old data superhighway.

Try doing what I do: clicking cache for the search link you want. Then click the site’s link at the top of the cache page. Works for Firefox 3.6.12, so far, anyhow. (You can also unclick enable on the Javascript, but you have to remember to turn it back on.)