Web Search Engines Fail

[Eric]

I'm running a Windows XP Pro workstation with IE6. My
problem started when I tried to use a google search
engine from Ref Desk, the search would time out. I then
went directly to Google and I can't access Googles site.
I later tried both yahoo and MSN search engines and they
both time out.

I've racked my brain on this one. I can access these
sites from any where else in our agency, all of my
network settings are the same as other pc's in the agency.

One theory is when I had IE 5.5 I played around with the
custimizing of the IE search tool. Each of these sites
that I can't search from where sites that I had set as a
default when using the search tool.

I've tried to reinstall IE6 and the behaivor hasn't
changed. Please advise.

TIA
Eric

 

[H Leboeuf]

Check this out.

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 against 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
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Also:
Look for a file named HOSTS (no extension, could be hidden) rename it
OLDHOSTS.

Henri Leboeuf
Web page: http://www.colba.net/~hlebo49/index.htm
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