However, the triggering process is not normal for a non-IE browser on Windows 7 or 8.1, and indicates something abnormal has occurred. The exact link you did provide isn't suspicious by itself. A question exists whether there is more to the link than just what you provided? The MSN 'start page' for IE, for example, is:, and is etched into the registry. Such a link, as notes, is normally accompanied with a LinkID number (such as ), which will take one to a specific-purposed MS webpage.
The go./fwlink you noted is a Microsoft 'internal redirect' link that, by itself, merely takes one to the webpage. There can be a world of insight contained in the nature of a domain name, particularly if malware is involved.
If you can get a better glimpse of what the 'pre-link's' domain name is at some point, it might be helpful. There shouldn't be any kind of 'pre-linking' in Windows 8.1 unless it's somehow been messed up by one of the Windows 10 pushed-upgrade notification attempts contained in some of the Microsoft updates over the past 6 months. Sorry guys I'm really not much of a techie but I do really want to rid this weird issue. I think I have only taken more notice of the issue over the last couple of days because the only time I had to restart my computer was a machine check exception BSOD which I think may have resolved now (so maybe that forced/error restart resetted the clock or something?)Īny thoughts would be greatly appreciated else I will review it again tomorrow to see if it happens again because I have not made any changes whatsoever since that last autostart. So it made me wonder if it could be an entry in 'News' or part of Windows to autostart the MSN homepage once a day? Unfortunately I was not fast enough to note down the pre-link but it looked something like What I did try to do was restart and also did a proper shut down, and on all those occasions Opera did not autostart. However, I did notice a pre-link(?) before the page was brought up. Weird thing is, when I went back to autorun, I could not find any entry related to Opera for today's date. Basically what I did yesterday was there was an opera entry in one of the HKLM checkboxes and as excited as I was, all I did was untick it, and restarted my comp and voila its gone! Sadly, today when I woke up and switched my computer back on there it was again!
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