Windows 7 Ultimate X64 IE 8 Microsoft Security Essentials I have a number of Windows 7 machines on a LAN. On one of them IE8 behaves a bit strange. I have a website www.saberman.com. If I type saberman.com into the URL box in IE8 it takes me to my website. If I type www.saberman.com I briefly see the url http://urlspy.co.uk/www.saberman.com and then wind up at http://urlmetrics.co.uk/removed/ I have used tools\options\delete to delete everything but I still get the same results. I have run some virus/malware detectors with no results. I checked the hosts file and it does not have anything defined -- just comments. I checked tools\options\connections\LAN settings and it is set to automatically detect settings -- no proxy defined. I have disabled all non Microsoft addons. The only utl address that exhibits this behavior is www.saberman.com. Any other website gets resolved properly whether I use just the domain or www.domain. Openning a command window and do a tracert for saberman.com and www.saberman.com yields the exact same set of ip addresses. The only subst defined is for H:\. The other machines on the LAN do not have this problem. What is going on? http://www.saberman.com

Found the problem. Somehow -- and I don't know how -- an internet shortcut was added to my Favorites folder with the name www.saberman.com and with the URL: http://urlspy.co.uk/www.saberman.com Appearently, IE8 searches your Favorites for a match and, if found, uses it instead of just doing a dns lookup on what you entered in the URL textbox.http://www.saberman.com

Glad to hear you find the root cause.Niki Han TechNet Community Support