Why I can't access any search engines??

This has happened in the last few weeks. I've never had
this problem before. I just get broken links or it takes
me to a page that says the url doesn't exist for ANY
search engine I use. Be it Google, Altavista, AskJeeves
etc etc, NOTHING works. What is going on?

>-----Original Message-----
>This has happened in the last few weeks. I've never had
>this problem before. I just get broken links or it takes
>me to a page that says the url doesn't exist for ANY
>search engine I use. Be it Google, Altavista, AskJeeves
>etc etc, NOTHING works. What is going on?
>.
>

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 12:48:56 -0700, "ARN2003"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>This has happened in the last few weeks. I've never had
>this problem before. I just get broken links or it takes
>me to a page that says the url doesn't exist for ANY
>search engine I use. Be it Google, Altavista, AskJeeves
>etc etc, NOTHING works. What is going on?

Sounds like a DNS hijack - possibly Qhosts.
http://securityresponse.symantec.com...an.qhosts.html

Check your entire C: drive, including hidden and system files and
folders, for "hosts" file.

Get Spybot S&D and HijackThis, and use them frequently and regularly.
Start with this article:
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showtopic=5187


Chuck
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