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Client has Windows 7 home edition. She is using IE8 with google.com set as her home page. When she googles anything it produces the results. Then within 5 seconds the following information is displayed on a new window:

The requested URL /-7890*sfxd*0*sfxd*0 was not found on this server. That’s all we know.

Her favorites work, She can type in a URL and go to it. Only google searches are affected. I have run Ccleaner, Malwarebytes, still has the problem.

I have used the earliest restore point available. When it comes back up she cannot access the internet. The restore point is about 6 weeks ago, so I will presume that she has had problems for a while.

Any ideas?
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Thank you for the advice! I will be working on this client's computer again tonight and will try your suggestions.

Do you have any idea what the error message means? I can't find anything via a google search on another computer.
The computer it's trying to contact probably got taken offline...that would be my guess.
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