Until about 2 months ago, I could CLICK on a link in an email advertisement and it WOULD go straight to that site. E.g., the link in an email from Publishers Clearing House. Now, it goes to "about:blank" while the wheel SPINS and shows "connecting to link.superprize.pch.com...." and times out after awhile. Same thing when I try to connect to a link in an email from DiscoverCard. A Discovercard email says "click here" to view something. Clicking on that link gives "http://link.email.discover.com/r/BC9NZO/POP10/FIRTZ6/E18BT/J8EGQ/UU/h" and it times out after awhile, but after plenty of time to go to it. It does that every time on every email link that starts out as "link." Website links in an email that are actual http addresses work fine, but all that start as "link" time out. What happened to make my computer do this and how can I get it back to where it will go to these emailed links?I did a "copy/paste" on the discover card site and this is what it brought up.

https://www.discovercard.com/cardmembersvcs/loginlogout/app/ac_main?link=/cardmembersvcs/extras/app/home
Is that where it takes you?
truenorth
P.S>Verified as same from link from this POST as original.You may be infected...
Does it do this in other browsers ?
Any other page re-directs happening with browsing ?
What protection apps do you have and when's the last time you updated and ran scans ? ?