IE6 search problem

[Saffy]

I have a problem with my IE and wonder if someone could help. I use IE
6.0.2800 and windows XP professional with service pack 1.

When I type any words into the search bar Yahoo searches for
"q1=AACAAAAAAAAAAA--&q2=REJEcg--" instead. If I unistall all the Yahoo
stuff the MSN search does the same. If I type in a full web address there
is no problem so I can therefre go to www.google.co.uk to search, but its
annoying not having the use of my search bar.

I posted to a security forum because I initially tought it was a virus or
adware but it doesn't appear to be, and now they have run out of ideas to
try

So far I have run Adaware, Spybot, Ewida, regsearch, Avast and Kaspersky
online scanner. I have deleted all temporary files. I have run system file
checker and done a system restore back to before Saturday when the problem
started.

I am totally at a loss as to what to do now other than delete everything and
start again which seems rather severe.

Please can someone help.

Saffy.

 

[Jon Kennedy]

See this site for possible help with search hijacking:
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/answers/42.html

You may also want to check the registry entry -
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl
per this article:

How to change the default AutoSearch search page
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/198279/EN-US/

 

[Guest]

Y'know, this looks like an encoding issue to me. Go to view/encoding and tell
us what your settings are.

 

[Saffy]

Y'know, this looks like an encoding issue to me. Go to view/encoding and tell
us what your settings are.

Unicode (UTF-8) is selected
Left to right document is selected

Is this the information you wanted? I would love for it to be as simple as
clicking something else!

Saffy.

 

[Saffy]

Unicode (UTF-8) is selected
Left to right document is selected

Is this the information you wanted? I would love for it to be as simple as
clicking something else!

I wondered if you had any suggesstions on how I should proceed?

Saffy