Jumping off a webpage
At work one of my PCs is an inspiron 6400 , XP Pro normal sort of stuff,MS office small business.
I am often online. The browser seems to have developed an annoying habit of jumping "off " certain internet pages. For example whenever I try to look at ebay.com the browser will just immediately go to the dell/google search page and say that ebay couldn't be found. There seem to be a growing list of sites that when I try to logon the browser defaults to the dell/google searchpage and says the site cannot be found. Anyone know what is going on here ? is it the settings , all of the sites I wanted to go to do exist but the browser just seems to default.
Also I am getting popups from install shield update manager sometimes reminding me to get updates. I run Mcaffe for firewall , virus etc etc - factory fitted. What is this install shield is it factory or something that invited itself onto my computer ? If it is not factory fitted how do I get rid of it?