SLOWWWW SEARCH WITH GOOGLE AND YAHOO!

[Liz]

I have seen many people with the same problem, but no one
seems to have an answer! Some say that yahoo and google
are just having trouble right now?! sigh..does anyone
know anything!?

If i do a search thru google or yahoo it hangs. It takes
a while to even get my hour glass symbol...for a while
only a curser, then i have to double click to get the
hour glass..very horrible. A single search takes up to 5
minutes..repeats the length of wait just to go to another
page in the same search. I can use other less well known
search engines just fine, like excite, but ask jeeves
also gives me issues. I also get the "not responding"
message in the blue header at the top while trying to get
a search going. I simply cannot "surf" the web.

I have done spybot search, adaware plus search, i have
adwatch, nortons, zone alarm running. I have done a
search for corupted or missing files on my pc, and have
emptied cache and temp files till im blue. I have run a
scan disk, and disk defragmented my hard drive. Nothing
makes anyof this better!

HELP ME PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THANK YOU!

LIZ

 

[Guest]

My searches on Google are just fine. Maybe it's your ISP.

 

[Malke]

I have seen many people with the same problem, but no one
seems to have an answer! Some say that yahoo and google
are just having trouble right now?! sigh..does anyone
know anything!?

If i do a search thru google or yahoo it hangs. It takes
a while to even get my hour glass symbol...for a while
only a curser, then i have to double click to get the
hour glass..very horrible. A single search takes up to 5
minutes..repeats the length of wait just to go to another
page in the same search. I can use other less well known
search engines just fine, like excite, but ask jeeves
also gives me issues. I also get the "not responding"
message in the blue header at the top while trying to get
a search going. I simply cannot "surf" the web.

I have done spybot search, adaware plus search, i have
adwatch, nortons, zone alarm running. I have done a
search for corupted or missing files on my pc, and have
emptied cache and temp files till im blue. I have run a
scan disk, and disk defragmented my hard drive. Nothing
makes anyof this better!

Since you ran all those spyware removal programs, your computer is
probably clean. However, perhaps one or more of the malware changed
your hosts files so you would have to go to an Evil Search Site. Check
your hosts files as follows:

1. In XP's Search preferences, set the files and folders handling to
Advanced, and then check the box that will make Search look in hidden
files/folders.
2. Now enter the search term "hosts" without the quotes.
3. You will get several hosts and lmhosts files. Double-click each one
to open it. When you do this, you'll get a Windows dialog box saying
that Windows cannot open this file, do you want to use the web or
select from a list to find the proper program. Choose "select from a
list" and highlight Notepad. Make sure the box to always use this
program to open this type of file is not checked.
4. Now carefully examine the file. Lines that begin with a # are
comments and don't count. Leave them alone. Unless you know you use a
proxy server to get to the Internet or you added entries yourself, the
only uncommented entry that should be there is:

127.0.0.1 localhost

If you see any other entries, delete them and Save the file. Make sure
you scroll all the way down to the bottom of the window if there is a
scrollbar. Do this for each file you found.

Malke