Re: IE cannot "find" google.com
From: J. S. Sigler (news.mail.account_at_webpath.us)
Date: 07/26/04
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Date: 26 Jul 2004 10:53:42 -0700
Try WinPatrol, it can be downloaded at
http://www.download.com/WinPatrol/3000-8022-10289770.html
It can take some time but you can use it to clean out stuff the
"automatic" systems don't.
You will also want to do a search on your PC for "hosts" and delete
all the extranious entries in the hosts file (entries than the
localhost entry). You can use notepad for this.
IE is very open to gathering spyware and viruses.
By way of example, I'm an
Internet Tech with a major National ISP here in the US. A customer
was having problems with Internet Explorer crashing at a certain web
site. I went to the site to see what may have been causing the
problem. Netscape opened it with no problems so I tried it with
Internet Explorer because it's what the customer was using. Internet
Explorer hit the site, Norton Antivirus told me that it caught two
viruses and I got spyware pop-ups all over the screen. I just
unplugged the PC and then turned it back on. I had 5 viruses (3 that
Norton did not even catch) and 8 pieces of spyware. Spybot, Ad-aware,
and Pest Patrol all failed to remove them. I was able to use
WinPatrol to find them and get the viruses and spyware cleared out,
which took a few hours.
Now when someone asks me how to keep from getting viruses and spyware
I tell them if they use Microsoft Windows don't use Internet Explorer!
Useful Links:
- Spyware info from Microsoft:
http://www.microsoft.com/security/articles/spyware.asp
- Microsoft info on Computer viruses:
description, prevention, and recovery:
http://support.microsoft.com/security/articles/viruses.asp
- Netscape 7.1 on CD: (Windows 98-XP)
http://on-disk.com/product_info.php/cPath/13/products_id/14
- IE6sp1 With Updates & Tools: (Windows 98-XP)
http://on-disk.com/product_info.php/products_id/46
- Internet Explorer 5.5 service pack 2 (SP2): (Windows 95-2000)
http://on-disk.com/ie55sp2.html
Windows 95 Links:
- Bring the older Windows 95 computer up to speed:
http://on-disk.com/product_info.php/products_id/33
- Windows Updates, IE5.5sp2, Firewall, Antivirus,
Spyware removal and monitoring:
http://on-disk.com/product_info.php/products_id/45
- Webpath.US, ISP with ongoing support for Windows 95
http://www.webpath.us
"Bruce Abell" <bruce@santafeassociates.com> wrote in message news:<#FCJZtocEHA.4092@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl>...
> The only url I cannot access is the one most visited! When I try to go to
> google.com, after about a minute I'm directed to
> http://search2.sopnav.com/apps/epa/eap?cid=shnv9887&s=www.google.com
> which tells me, "sorry, we could not find google.com."
>
> As a consequence, my default search engine has become Teoma. But I want to
> use google.
>
> I'm running Norton Internet Security and Norton Antivirus, but the problem
> occurred before I installed them. I've done complete virus scans and come
> up clean.
>
> Something has highjacked my access to google. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --Bruce Abell
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