Cannot execute a search with any search engine

[ricksafe]

For some reason, all of a sudden out of the blue IE will
not let me conduct a search through any search engine
(i.e. yahoo or google). This appears to be an IE
connection problem because we also have aol and we can
connect to either yahoo or google just fine through AOL
and search just fine. We are running XP on an emachine
that we have had for about 6 months. It just started this
problem this week. Thanks for your help.

 

[H Leboeuf]

Qhosts virus/trojan, aka delude ALERT!.

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.qhosts.html
http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100719.htm
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojqhosts1.html

Removal tools that have been used with success.
http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/CIS/Software_Services/virus/index.html
http://software.brown.edu/dist/w-cleanqhosts.html