I recently purchased a Sony Vaio laptop with Vista Home Premium and
http://www.google.com/ as my homepage. I have a Wireless connection at
work (using a ADSL modem and a Netgear Router with security enabled)
and a wireless connection at home using a ADSL modem-router (no
security). I have a really weird problem - while clicking a link,
sometimes I get a "404 Not Found, Google Error, The requested URL was
not found on the server". Also, when I type a URL in the address bar,
a "Google English" search site opens. And when you move the pointer
over all the usual links on the google search page, they are replaced
with the address that I've just typed (though they still visually
appear as google links). BTW, I have a second laptop running WinXP SP2
with IE6 and face no such errors or problems when browsing the same
network simultaneously!

The really weird part is that I have no such problems on my home
network either with the Vista laptop. All pages open normally and I
have seen no "Google English" sites. Every link opens normally, and
every address that I type goes directly to that particular website.

I've run Windows Defender, AVG Antivirus and AVG Anti spyware programs
and they've all come clean. This is a brand new laptop and no other
programs are running. There is absolutely no chance of a virus.

Can you help me please? This is driving me crazy!!