Jen, I just did this and it works after you reboot. let
me know what happens. Very easy to do.
I was unable to use my search icon, or use google search
and other search engines. I realized I had gotten a
Trojan.
To fix.
1. Open up Notepad.
2. Click File, then open.
3. Click My computer, Local Drive C.
4. Click on Windows folder, then on Help folder.
5. Change file type to "All Files".
6. Then open up the "hosts" File.
When you open it up, you will see a list of IP's and web
adress,,,like google, altvista, aj, etc.
This is telling your browser to avoid them.
So, delete all the lines (the only one you would keep if
listed is 127.0.0.1)
After there all deleted, just save the file.
This will fix the problem.
It is an advertisment scam to make you use other search
engines! It suxs, took me a while to fiqure out what the
problem was, I un-installed explore a few times, and did
a system restore. When that didn't work, I checked
message boards, and this was the fix, and it worked.
Good luck
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