searchurl not functioning

[siik]

hey all.

i ran into a spyware that started changing my error
message urls, eg http://blah-blah-internet.com/error?%s, %
s being the url that isn't dnsing or whatnot. lavasoft ad-
aware took care of it quickly and deleted the registry
keys. however, now i can't search anything from address
bar. i created my own shortcuts using tweakui and they
don't work, as well as the "Search for" prefixes.

my best guess is to rebuild the ie registry, but i don't
know how to do that.

any help is appreciated. tia

 

[H Leboeuf]

If this is not the issue then please explain your difficulties.


Unable to use any major Search Engines?
Qhosts virus/trojan, 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

To protect agains an other attack, be sure to install hotfix 828750 which
fixes the exploit that this virus uses.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/critical/828750/default.asp

 

[Guest]

i have 'explained my difficulties'.

again, as i stated earlier, i've found through some google
help that these prefixes/keywords are stored in (somewhere
in)current_user/software/ie/searchurl. i have that branch
still, but searching still doesn't work. if someone knows
how to get the prefixes working again, it would be helpful.