I have lost all search capabilities!?!?

amayer40 · Dec 23, 2003

I have lost all of my search engines??? When I go to www.google.com I get some error page and when I try to search from any site (yahoo, msn, etc.) I get "This page cannot be displayed". Does anyone know why this has happened and how to get it back??

tripleione · Dec 23, 2003

Hmm... cookies enabled? AV software interference?

Krugger · Dec 23, 2003

Originally posted by amayer40
I have lost all of my search engines??? When I go to www.google.com I get some error page and when I try to search from any site (yahoo, msn, etc.) I get "This page cannot be displayed". Does anyone know why this has happened and how to get it back??

i believe there was a virus that did this a while back. it edits your hosts file and redirects those sites to other sites. get an anti virus program and scan your computer. go to http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ and download/install/run adaware.
also search for your hosts file and open it with notepad or wordpad and see if you see anything mentioning yahoo or google etc.

putasolutions · Dec 30, 2003

Make sure your AV is up to date, and do a full and thorough scan

The trojan you're thinking of is Qhosts

ak_in_charge · Dec 30, 2003

After you do a good system scan, you should clean out all your spyware crap as well ~ Ad Aware\Spybot S&D

Krugger · Dec 30, 2003

Originally posted by putasolutions
Make sure your AV is up to date, and do a full and thorough scan

The trojan you're thinking of is Qhosts

yup, thats the one i figured it was.

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