How the Heck do Your Turn Off IE8 Search Suggestions

Please check this out, that should do it:

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/9450/disable-and-remove-suggested-sites-from-internet-explorer-8/

I'm not familiar with that Search Suggestions box - it's not a feature of IE8.  It looks to be a feature of the page you're on.

Incidentally, to answer your question - yes you can take alcohol to your room on a cruise.

I'd also highly recommend NCL (Norwegian Cruise Lines) - I've traveled with them once before, and will be traveling again October 2012.

Okay, first the Suggested Sites is off and it is not a tool bar issue.  The Suggested Sites on the Tool Bar is not checked and this is not on the tool bar.  This has only just started coming up with IE 8.

Why would this just be coming up now?

goto tools/add ons
See if you can find the related add on and disable it.  

http://searchengineland.com/yahoocom-adds-search-suggestions-11676
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Yahoo.com Adds Search Suggestions

Don’t like the search suggestions at Yahoo? No worries, you can turn them off by clicking on “more” and then selecting “Disable Search Suggestions,” as I show in this screen capture.
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Oh and watch out for that nasty corking fee when you take the bottle from the table to your room.  ;-)

Thanks for everyone's input so far.  The key is that the Yahoo Search Suggestion as you type is not the issue.  In fact it doesn't appear to be related to Yahoo or Google.  If you see my example, from time to time a box on the right hand side of the screen pops up and blocks what I'm looking at asking if I want to search for "what ever information it has determined I want" which I don't.  That is what I'm trying to get rid of.

Again thanks for all the info.

John

Check for malware

Time for a spyware/adware/malware scan.

Update your AV, install MalwareBytes anti-malware, spybot search and destroy, and AdAware. Do full system scans with each. Your on-access scanner should pop up from your AV if you run into a virus.

Spybot has a good interface for checking startup entries that other tools miss. Loom for anything weird, and un-check it. If it is not needed you can come back and delete it later.

AV is always up todate and is run nightly without issue.  Just the normal cookies that it removes.  Use AVG Paid version.  I also use and run Malwarebytes weekly.  It finds nothing.

Also, XP and IE8 fully patched.

Load up Spybot Search and Destroy.
 - Download from here:
   http://www.safer-networking.org/en/spybotsd/index.html
In the Mode menu, switch to advanced.
In the Tools section, put a check in BHO to enable  that tool.
In the gray area on the left, click on BHO's
You will see a list of the Browser Helper Objects.
At the top of the screen, click the Export button.
Save the text file and upload here.

It is also a good idea to take the latest update, then immunize your browsers and run a scan.  I find that it will detect things that MalewareBytes will miss, and vice versa.

ednetman,

Here is the export.  When I ran the scan, all it found were cookies.

John
SpybotSD.BHO-report.txt

Thanks it was the item you identified the Browser Helper.