| 22 Oct 2003 02:15 pm |
greegs Guest | Has anyone got a clue what is going on with google at the moment, supposedly if you use the search engine a virus re configures your network configuration of your browser. I’ve already experienced this and had to get help from my isp.
Now google.com is offline completely!
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| 22 Oct 2003 03:40 pm |
TheMatrixBoy Guest | no it isnt fool... I can get on google.com fine..
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| 22 Oct 2003 04:42 pm |
greegs Guest | fool! not if blueyonder broadband is your isp arsehole
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| 24 Oct 2003 01:00 pm |
? Guest | It’s a virus, it f**K’s up you DNS. We had two pc’s infectied at work.
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.qhosts.html
Hope this helps!
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| 24 Oct 2003 03:50 pm |
Solution Guest | I had the same problem in that I couldn’t access half the search engines. I tried the Symantec solution. This deleted all the registry keys, but I still couldn’t access google.com.
I found the solution at http://sophos.kings.edu/documents/qhost-1.asp. Which gives a good guide to getting rid of the Qhost Trojan.
A quick solution is to search for files with the word 'hosts'. Open those files and delete the following lines
elite
www.google.akadns.net
www.google.com
google.com
www.altavista.com
altavista.com
search.yahoo.com
uk.search.yahoo.com
ca.search.yahoo.com
jp.search.yahoo.com
au.search.yahoo.com
de.search.yahoo.com
search.yahoo.co.jp
www.lycos.de
www.lycos.ca
www.lycos.jp
www.lycos.co.jp
alltheweb.com
web.ask.com
ask.com
www.ask.com
www.teoma.com
search.aol.com
www.looksmart.com
auto.search.msn.com
search.msn.com
There may be more or less lines like this. But removing them should do the trick
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| 19 Nov 2003 07:48 pm |
jarad Guest | — — — — moderated, jarad that was fun! do u really believe that belongs here? hehe — — — — — -
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| 20 Nov 2003 04:12 pm |
nav Guest | im on blueyonder and i can access it fine. n e worrys?
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| 21 Nov 2003 08:51 pm |
Regular Rep: 0 Joined: 14 Nov 2003 Posts: 615 OFFLINE | I’d reinstall or reformat. Safest and normally the quickest way to get rid of any viruses etc that *maybe* infecting the system. Besides, a system runs much better after reinstalling/reformatting.
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| 22 Nov 2003 11:57 am |
jjr Guest | Go to mcafee.com
download demo of virus scan
scan drive
it will find the Qhost-1 file under windows/help/
it will gove you option to clean
click clean
it will remove registry settings that point to different DNS servers which will either redirect you or provide a 404 error
It also has the manual repair instructions as well - I did it last night and now it works perfectly no problems with any searches or portal based searches
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