search engines not working

[Guest]

what would be some reasons for the following search
engines (yahoo, msn, google, and others) to not allow be
to use them?

 

[Steven Burn]

when you say "not allow", does it give an error......(if so, what is it)?

Have you tried alternative search engines such as;

www.mamma.com
www.dogpile.com (my personal favourite)

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Regards

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!

Disclaimer:
I know I'm probably wrong, I just like taking part ;o)

 

[Gary Tsang]

Hi,

You might have 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://software.brown.edu/dist/w-cleanqhosts.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/.