Search engines

[Jason]

Here is my question. Using internet explorer, I can pull
up any web page I want to. I can go to www.dogpile.com and
do a search for books for example. But when I goto
yahoo.com or msn.com and try to do a search for books as a
example I end up getting nothing. The computer will try to
search for the topic books but it will time out and say
page can not be displayed. It is not the search engine
yahoo.com or msn.com. I tested that with onther computer.
Please if you know the answer please email me at
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Jerry]

Seems you may have spyware. Visit http://www.safer-
networking.org/ and download the spybot search and
destroy utility. Its free and it works.

 

[Sharon F]

Here is my question. Using internet explorer, I can pull
up any web page I want to. I can go to www.dogpile.com and
do a search for books for example. But when I goto
yahoo.com or msn.com and try to do a search for books as a
example I end up getting nothing. The computer will try to
search for the topic books but it will time out and say
page can not be displayed. It is not the search engine
yahoo.com or msn.com. I tested that with onther computer.
Please if you know the answer please email me at
(e-mail address removed)

Not sure what to say. It's a fact that some search engines are better than
others. People usually choose and stick with the one (or more) that most
often gets them the results that they're looking for.

 

[Kent W. England [MVP]]

I suspect he has the Qhosts "infection". The new Qhosts bug exploits the
unpatched residual vulnerability in MS03-032. See
http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100719.htm and
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.qhosts.html for more
details.

You can fix the Qhosts bug manually if your AV tools don't do it.

Delete the following files:
%WinDir%\Help\hosts
%WinDir%\winlog

Delete the following directory:
c:\bdtmp\tmp

Reset the following registry key value:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters
"DataBasePath" = %SystemRoot%\System32\drivers\etc

Delete the following registry key value:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\In
terfaces\windows
"r0x" = your s0x

Delete the following IP addresses from your DNS servers list, if
present:
69.57.146.14
69.57.147.175
and reconfigure your DNS server IP addresses, as required by your
service provider.

Qhosts sets all search values to google. Reconfigure 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/.

 

[Sharon F]

I suspect he has the Qhosts "infection". The new Qhosts bug exploits the
unpatched residual vulnerability in MS03-032. See
http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100719.htm and
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.qhosts.html for more
details.

You can fix the Qhosts bug manually if your AV tools don't do it.

Delete the following files:
%WinDir%\Help\hosts
%WinDir%\winlog

Delete the following directory:
c:\bdtmp\tmp

Reset the following registry key value:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters
"DataBasePath" = %SystemRoot%\System32\drivers\etc

Delete the following registry key value:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\In
terfaces\windows
"r0x" = your s0x

Delete the following IP addresses from your DNS servers list, if
present:
69.57.146.14
69.57.147.175
and reconfigure your DNS server IP addresses, as required by your
service provider.

Qhosts sets all search values to google. Reconfigure 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/.

Good point Kent! Thanks for bringing it up.