Search Engine Problems

[Dave Richards]

For the past couple of weeks i have been experienceing
problems trying to access any search engine site directly
through the address bar.

If i use a portal site such as www.btinternet.com to
access googole, then i have no problems, however
accessing it directly either brings me a 404 error or a
holding page for a company called cPanel.

This also occurs for the search engines
www.altavista.com, www.askjeeves.com and others

I have spoken to my isp and they have told me it must be
a problem with IE6....do anyone have any ideas???

If so, could u pls mail me and let me know?

Thanks in advance

David

 

[Gary Tsang]

Hi,

It sounds like you've been infected with the Trojan.Qhost bug.
The new Qhosts bug exploits the unpatched residual vulnerability in
MS03-032.

Information regarding this can be found here.
http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100719.htm and
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.qhosts.html

The removal tool for this trojan is available here:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.qhosts.removal.tool.html

The bug sets all search values to google. You may wish to change your
configuration on your Internet
Explorer search settings as desired, if you don't want google.

To prevent this exploit, install the critical update described by
bulletin MS03-040 and KB828750. To test your browser vulnerability to
this exploit, see http://www.secunia.com/MS03-032/.