Re: Search Button no longer works with IE6

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From: Don Ferguson (nospam_at_nospam.com)
Date: 05/24/04 

Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 09:19:08 -0700

I checked for the footprint of qhosts on my computer and didn't find it.
Nevertheless, I went ahead and ran the cleanhosts utility, rebooted and
still have the problem.

Question:

Would a computer infected with QHOSTS be able to work fine with Mozilla?

"H Leboeuf" <NoAddress@generation.invalid> wrote in message
news:10b43an78lkgh64@corp.supernews.com...
> If 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
> --
>
> Henri Leboeuf
> Web page: http://www.colba.net/~hlebo49/index.htm
> ===
> "Don Ferguson" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:O8xDKrVQEHA.1620@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > I had previously posted this message in
> > Microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer, but I believe that this is a more
> > appropriate location. So sorry for the double post. I am running on
> > Windows XP Professional. All service packs and updates have been
applied.
> >
> > I have a new problem that has recently come up with IE6. It seems that
> when
> > I go to various search sites such as Google and click the search button,
> > nothing happens. If I log in with a different profile, it works fine.
If
> I
> > create a new profile, the problem exists in the new profile. If I
perform
> a
> > system restore to a point in time well before this problem started
> > occurring, it doesn't help. I have also queried for this problem (with
> the
> > working profile) in Google Groups. I do find reports of others who have
> > this problem, but no solutions that lead to a fix have been offered. I
> > suppose I could perform a clean install, but I am not ready to go to
those
> > extreme measures yet. I have also tried reinstalling IE6, as well as
> > resetting web settings. If I am logged into the non working profile and
> > launch IE6 using "run as" with the good profile, searches also work. I
> also
> > tried Mozilla, which allows the search button to work. So this seems to
> be
> > an IE/profile issue. If anyone has come across a solution to this
> problem,
> > I would appreciate the help.
> >
> >
> >
>

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