Internet Problems

12-18-2007 | Self

[Always Right]

I can't get any of the major search engine sites to open, but am having no problems with smaller sites. Anyone else having problems.

[Justa]

Format the hard drive. Reinstall the OS.

Ticket Closed.

/S

[rarestia]

Open Notepad. File > Open and browse to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts. Check to make sure an exploit virus or malware didn’t put some redirected IPs in for search engines.

You can also check hosts-file.net for a hosts file that will block pretty much every undesirable site you could imagine by simply redirecting it to 127.0.0.1.

[relictele]

Format the hard drive. Reinstall the OS.

Ticket Closed.

/S

Unfortunately these are the actual instructions issued by tech support at the big PC makers (Dell, HP, et al) - no sarcasm tag required there! Of course, 'tech support' is a euphemism for 'call center in Bangalore with barely-trained phone ops who like to put you on hold a lot and speak a maddeningly unintelligible form of pidgin English.'

[Philistone]

A friend on another board is having trouble too this morning with Google. Keeps getting redirected to google.com.hk (Hong Kong).

May indeed be a virus redirect somewhere...

[ThomasThomas]

Since you can get here there is no problem, just ask one of these helpful Freepers that can to run them to do the search for you and post the results. Sorry I can’t help much now because I’ll be in the shower.

[Philistone]

Check here to see if you qualify.

[Bigh4u2]

If this is a browser hijacker..then download and run this.

Fixwareout.exe

It will remove any hijacker from your computer.

It’s the only thing that worked for me.

Adaware and Spybot found it, but didn’t remove it.

[Justa]

I know, it’s bad. I knew of an IT contractor team in Iraq that used a release form stating acknowledgment that all data might be lost and it was the users’ responsibility for backup. They made the people drop their laptops off at their office and their SOP was to wipe them. Can’t open an Outlook attachment? Wipe and reload. They eventually got the boot off base but unfortunately most of them just slithered off to another contract. At least their supervisor, the ultimate culprit, got the boot from Iraq by his employer. By sheer coincidence (of course) he was a Lib. Lots of that over there btw, Lib contractors in effect sabotaging the mission.

[antiRepublicrat]

Why does Vista seem to be the common denominator in most of the problems I hear these days?

[FreePaul]

I also am running AdAware on XP with no problem. The problem is on a machine with Vista. It’s a problem with AdAware and/or Vista but a lot of people are having the same problem. If AdAware won’t run on Vista without problems who is at fault. Yeh, I know, whoever installed Vista.

[Joe 6-pack]

I just checked my search injun...all OK here.

[reagan_fanatic]

LOL