After looking at some topics from users complaining about the frequency that yeah.com comes up in their browser when they typed a real site, the following interesting explanation (and fix) was posted.

Yeah.com and Your.com are owned by digimedia, a company in OK. They also own a domain called (and how did this name get approved) com.org. Internet explorer has this too-clever-for-its-own-good habit of treating anything you type that does not resolve as a request for anythingyoutyped.com and then anythingyoutyped.org. Presto, if you were after something.com you just got routed to something.com.org (really, just the Digimedia com.org site with a DNS wildcard), which quickly redirects you to their click-through and advertising revenue driven portal, yeah.com.

SBC DNS servers have been a bit squiffy lately, as all DNS servers are wont to be from time to time, but the result is that thousands, probably tens of thousands, of customers have been scratching their head wondering if their PC has been taken over by spyware or adware.

Here is how to fix it (if you wish to resist firefox).

Go to "tools" then "internet options" then "advanced" tab, then scroll down to where it says "search from address bar" it looks like a magnifying glass... Click on "do not search from address bar". then click OK then reboot.

Thanks to Alex818 for spotting this, after huge topics sprouted in the security forum and the SBC forum, mainly looking for possibly spyware intrusions.

If Yeah.com or Your.com or Digimedia had any online decency they'd post this fix at the top of their com.org site, and a blank page after it, but one suspects they share a gene pool with marketers from Network Solutions.