Re: having trouble with all search engines

From: Don Varnau (don_04[at]varnau[dot]org)
Date: 08/10/04 

Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 05:15:13 -0500

Hi,
Work through all of the solutions (CWShredder, Ad-aware, Spybot) at
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm Also note the security tips on that
page.

Additional information at:
The Parasite Fight http://www.aumha.org/a/quickfix.htm
More security tips at http://www.aumha.org/a/parasite.htm
Bugs, Glitches & Stuffups: http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/Darnit.htm

If these programs don't remove the malware, HijackThis should be used to
post a log to the appropriate forum at one of these sites.
HijackThis instructions and download:
http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/

Forums:
http://forum.mvps.org/ Excellent help- low traffic. Visit
http://forum.aumha.org/viewtopic.php?t=4075 before posting the log.

http://tomcoyote.com/forums/
http://www.lavasoftsupport.com/
http://www.spywareinfo.com/forums/
http://boards.cexx.org/
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/index.php

Hope this helps,
Don 

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MVP IE/OE
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"Andria"  wrote in message news:33b501c47ea0$50ef6570$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> I am having a strange problem.  Everytime I go to a search
> engine whether its Yahoo, MSN, Google, etc. I always get
> this litte error message that pops up in a frame on the
> right hand side of the page that says "Server Application
> Unavailable
> The web application you are attempting to access on this
> web server is currently unavailable.  Please hit
> the "Refresh" button in your web browser to retry your
> request.
>
> Administrator Note: An error message detailing the cause
> of this specific request failure can be found in the
> application event log of the web server. Please review
> this log entry to discover what caused this error to
> occur."
>
> I get my search results but that pops up on the right side
> EVERY time.  At Yahoo I get that on the right then another
> one on the left side that gives me an ad for whatever it
> is I'm searching for and at the top I see a URL and all I
> can catch is http://fastfinds.org/ and then it has some
> other stuff after that.  But it has an X so I can close it
> but I can't close the one on the other side.  I have the
> Yahoo toolbar with the pop up blocker.  I also have
> Spybot, Norton, and the Stinger download from Mcafee that
> targest specific viruses.  I ran each of these and the Spy
> Bot found 12 spy ware programs and deleted them.  What
> could be causing this? Thank you very much.