Re: Access denied to all search engines

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From: H Leboeuf (NoAddress_at_generation.invalid)
Date: 07/08/04 

Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 08:32:29 -0400

These tool should return your search engines.

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
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"lwd" <lwd@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B0E8BF44-0CD6-43D9-8855-75E1E7F90805@microsoft.com...
> I was hit with the Trojan.Ecure.C virus which controlled my homepage
access to a secure.html file. After I cleaned the file, I reset my home page
to yahoo. When accessing the web, it does not allow me to access the yahoo
site. This happens for all search engine sites including google and MSN. I
have tried everything and it does not work. Help.
>
> I can type in a company address and get to a company site; however, all
search sites are not available.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks

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