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| 1) Posted by: Steve-O September 26, 2003 11:21 AM Dude, It's all just a glitch in the second matrix... |
| 2) Posted by: Christian September 26, 2003 6:46 PM That is so odd. I love the googlebar too, but I mostly use the googlebar with mozilla. It's available on mozdev.org. When I am doing a lot of research I kind of lose my place a lot with IE and googlebar. However, the tab browsing of mozilla in combo with its googlebar is great because you can just branch off of your google search pages. |
| 3) Posted by: YH September 28, 2003 10:35 AM Intresting, Scott. This has happened to me before, even after following all the steps you listed above. It just magically appears one day. Oh well...nice article. |
| 4) Posted by: J.G. October 2, 2003 3:20 AM I'm having the same problem... but even stranger, 2 computers in the house, connecting via router.. one can access google no problem, one can't. hmmm |
| 5) Posted by: PS October 2, 2003 8:14 AM I'm having the same problem, but I cannot access any search engines. I tried google, yahoo, and trying to do a search on the msn search bar and I get the page cannot be displayed. |
| 6) Posted by: clifgriffin October 2, 2003 12:18 PM I thought I had it solved till you pinged it successfully. It sounded like your ISP's dns wasn't resolving Google correctly, but apparently that wasn't the case. Very strange. |
| 7) Posted by: Brandi October 2, 2003 12:19 PM I can't access google on my computer at home. I was baffled because usually I'll just google a problem to find out how to fix it, but now that my crutch has been taken away, I'm at a loss. Not having google makes me want to cry. Maybe I was taking it for granted and the powers that be decided to punish me? Alas and alack, I hope google comes back soon. |
| 8) Posted by: VegetamaGT October 2, 2003 12:38 PM I'm having the same problem! My dads computer works! And we are on the same router...Whats going on!? :( (I cant get on yahoo search but I cant check my mail and I cant get on google at all) |
| 9) Posted by: Kachan October 2, 2003 1:20 PM Hey people! I'm having the very same problem as you do too! Can only access google from the IP number (216.239.59.99 works too). But when I ping google.com like Scott did, I only get time-outs! Friends on MSN are accessing google with no problems. At first I thought, gawd this probably happened because of some programs I had on my computer until recently (virus/stupid codes, who knows!). I'm not really willing to restore my entire system to find out if it has something do with my computer's hidden 'settings', so I'll be stuck with the anonimizer/ or ip-accessing google until it clears itself. @Cliffgriffin; I would understand from the timeouts my ISP's dns isn't resolving Google correctly? Let us pray:D |
| 10) Posted by: Baffled JOe October 2, 2003 4:40 PM Same problem here. cannot access Google.com on this computer but it works fine on 2 other systems connected to the same internet connection. My guess is some sort of virus. :\ |
| 11) Posted by: Adam October 2, 2003 5:56 PM Same problem here - can't get to Google and can't search on Yahoo. The sites do work on one of my two computers on my network. I look forward to a solution! I am going to bed now.... |
| 12) Posted by: John October 2, 2003 6:27 PM I too am having the same problem! My problem started yesterday evening. I think it must be a virus because both my home and work computers began exhibiting the same problem: neither could access any websites despite having full internet access. At work, my system administrator found that my DNS settings had been modified from automatic values to a hardcoded value. Changing that fixed the problem with other websites, but I still cannot access Google, HotBot, Altavista, go.msn, search.yahoo.com and other search engines. Thankfully, I discovered that I could access www.alltheweb.com. |
| 13) Posted by: John October 2, 2003 6:45 PM ***IMPORTANT*** |
| 14) Posted by: Josh October 2, 2003 7:37 PM Subject: Re: [#4138355] Google Blocked We suspect that running a program called "HijackThis" on your computer may help us identify the source of the difficulties. We For instructions on how to install and run this program, After running HijackThis, please copy and paste the log file generated by
Original Message Follows: I have am having a problem with EI6.0 eveytime I load google.com itdirects me to 207.44.194.58 I know this is not google and I have checkedmy host file.. I can access google from AOL and anonymizer. I can even access google when I type the IP address. Can you help me fix this firedwg1@aol.com
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| 15) Posted by: Kachan October 3, 2003 6:25 AM Hello people, back again. I removed the virus through McAffee's manual approach (deleting winlog and hosts file in HELP/ editing the register). ^^ Google works fine now! Before I removed it however, I automatically typed in google today to search something. I didn't get 404 anymore, I got into a page called Google CPANEL!! Haha! I wonder what would have happened if I knew the password for that thing! I also have a unix host that has a CPANEL...it logs in the way it did on that page. If someone smarter then me saw this page I have an eerie feeling they might not be able to resist... |
| 16) Posted by: Scott Manning October 3, 2003 6:53 AM RE: VIRUS Guys, I do NOT have this virus you are all talking about. Scott |
| 17) Posted by: TJ October 3, 2003 1:07 PM Scott - it may be that the trojan removes itself after awhile. This may be a way to swamp servers with hits, since google gets so many hits per day anyways. This just diverts traffic to a new site which then collapses under the weight. After doing some searches, others have reported that it just goes away after a while... but how do we prevent it is the question... |
| 18) Posted by: Will October 3, 2003 1:37 PM I have the problem right now. It's weird, and I have no idea how to fix it. Even goole.ca and google.co.uk don't work for me. I'll try sufing through a proxy and see ehat happens...l |
| 19) Posted by: Ruolong October 3, 2003 4:09 PM Yeah, I have had same problem for two days, I used Norton to check and find the virus, looks like QGhost, so I deleted it and as John suggested, I went to http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=description&virus_k=100719, followed the instructions to get rid of the virus. thanks, guys!!!!! |
| 20) Posted by: Robert TS October 3, 2003 10:11 PM Haha my god, we got all the same problems... Same for me... I cant connect to google, altavista, hotbot & lycos... thats weird!!! At work, it works!!! :S |
| 21) Posted by: Gaffer October 4, 2003 9:02 AM Scott, you're a saviour! Thanks for taking the time to write your problems here, as I along with thousands of other I'm sure, saw some light at the end of the Google-less tunnel! Thanks! |
| 22) Posted by: Craig October 4, 2003 10:34 AM Thank god I found this. I have been blocked from Google for the past two days, when i couldn't seem to pull up ANY search engine including Lycos, Yahoo...that's when i got suspicious. Does anyone know how to reset the DNS server? I have no idea how to do this! |
| 23) Posted by: Scott Watson October 4, 2003 12:19 PM You don't have to have an active virus to have this problem, Best bet is (after checking for active viruses and removing |
| 24) Posted by: pelch October 4, 2003 12:56 PM I thought it was just me. compuserve found Google just fine but |
| 25) Posted by: kelly October 4, 2003 4:43 PM having the same exact problem, I cant go to google, altavista, yahoo, or aol. strangly enough msn search works, however I also found that www3.google.com works... |
| 26) Posted by: Tim Renwick October 4, 2003 8:50 PM Had the same problem. All search engines were resolving to 207.44.194.56. Was getting the same cPanel error message. Found and removed (renamed) hosts file in C:/WINNT/Help and search engines resolve correctly again. Also noticed through the Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Services that two services, DameWare and DameWare Mini Remote Control had been loaded. They appear to be remote control software that had been loaded (unknown to me). I have removed them for safety, but suspect they had something to do with the modification to my host file. Hope this helps someone. A very annoying virus/malicious modification. Tim |
| 27) Posted by: Rob October 5, 2003 8:37 AM Just found the same problem on my box and after running google from the 216.239.41.99 I got from an nslookup, I found this link. This is exactly my problem. Thanks for taking the time to post this, it was only 1 of 6 entries from my google search and it did the trick. Cheers, -Rob |
| 28) Posted by: Jeff October 5, 2003 11:19 AM Ditto for me. Thanks very much for posting. |
| 29) Posted by: pelch October 5, 2003 12:14 PM I don't know if it was coincidence or not. If the bug timed out or not but I ran the spybot search and destroy program and the problem went away. also installed microsoft patch. |
| 30) Posted by: pelch October 5, 2003 12:50 PM spybot sd link is http://www.safer-networking.org/ |
| 31) Posted by: Jeff Min October 5, 2003 6:04 PM Thank you, thank you, thank you. I actually DID recently browse a fortunecity.com site, and that may have been when my computer was infected by the virus. If it weren't for this page, I might never have figured out the problem. |
| 32) Posted by: so October 5, 2003 7:25 PM As a low-tech user I found a solution to the locked-out-of-google issue by accident - just misspell Google: www.gogole.com. It gets automatically corrected and shoots right through. |
| 33) Posted by: Kausik Datta October 5, 2003 10:20 PM I just solved the exact same problem after going through a microsoft newsgroup community posting. Open the 'Hosts' file in c:\windows (or winnt)\system32\drivers\etc using notepad and check the entries. Do a search (and include hidden files) for any 'Hosts' file in your computer. It appears that a duplicate hidden copy may be tucked in c:\windows\help folder. Open that too with Notepad. Chances are that either of these two would contain a series of references to different search engines (different language versions of Google; also MSN search, Yahoo etc); SHIFT-delete that file. Then, download the fixQhost.exe file from symantec AV center (symantec.avcenter.com) and run the tool following their instructions. This tool will NOT show the trojan (since you will have deleted the 'Hosts' file) but WILL remove the related references in the system registry. |
| 34) Posted by: Hexla October 5, 2003 10:22 PM I had this problem and had no idea what to do...I thought it was a prob with IE, so i went to Netscape homepage. They had a "powerd by google" seach option there, and i found this page. ONE MORE THING, i'm using AVG virus checher (cuz its free) and it didn't pick up this virus. |
| 35) Posted by: pelch October 6, 2003 8:47 AM just checked the host file found in windows directory I had previously removed and found it full of the incorrect ip address |
| 36) Posted by: Rayo October 6, 2003 11:30 AM Thank you for the resolution to my Yahoo! searching problems. I must have been infected with the qHost virus because my symptoms mirrored those mentioned above. The fix that worked for me was to find the copied hosts file in c:/windows/help and delete it. I then disabled the restore drivers feature and ran the Trojan QHost removal tool available at www.symantec.com/avcenter. The tool took a little more than an hour to scan my entire system, but in the end, my Yahoo! search bar and all google-like functions have been enabled! |
| 37) Posted by: Brian Jennings October 6, 2003 12:13 PM
Thanks for all the great info, everyone. BJ |
| 38) Posted by: Chuck October 6, 2003 7:10 PM Tried everything above noted above. Nothing works:( |
| 39) Posted by: Caleb October 6, 2003 9:23 PM Hi there. It turns out I got the Qhost virus as well. I downloaded a Qhost virus fix program from symantec and it solved my problem. While the program was running I did some research on the virus. Apparently the virus secretly redirects you to cPanel website. cPanel has nothing to do with the virus, it's just that the creators of the virus picked that site for some reason. No matter what search engine you choose: google, yahoo, altavista, you're still secretly redirected to the exact same site. However, one interesting thing I noticed was that if you type in the word "elite" in your address bar (while infected) you will be redirected to the IP address: 88.88.88.88 I was not brave enough to try it out. Who knows what kind of malicious code might be on that website. Anyone have a computer they don't care about being messed up? Try it out and tell us what happens. |
| 40) Posted by: Russ October 7, 2003 12:59 AM I too ran into the ugly issue of google not working starting last week Thurs. I didn't know this website existed today so I thought I was the only one having the issues. I restored my system back to a date about a month ago, but low and behold, it did not fix the problem. I too ran the virus checks and did not find anything so I decided it was time to whip out the Windows XP Pro CD and reformat my Hard Drive! Two hours later, I was back googling again. I understand this was possibly some kind of virus or trojan. Does anyone know the name of it? How much damage it could have inflicted and any possible system information that was available for people to view with the trojan/virus in full effect? |
| 41) Posted by: kelly October 7, 2003 1:05 AM thank you! |
| 42) Posted by: Charsie October 7, 2003 9:42 AM I have had the same problem for the last five days - google, yahoo search engine, MSN searches were not working. I bought VirusScan, but that didn't help - no viruses found. |
| 43) Posted by: Chuck October 7, 2003 9:47 AM I have tried every fix on this page just short of reformatting my hard drive. I'm running on Windows 2000 Pro. I really don't want to reformat my drive. I have way to many games and other applications that I would have to reinstall and it would take many hours worth of work to accomplish this. One other strange thing I noticed... Can anyone offer any new suggestions? |
| 44) Posted by: Brian Jennings October 7, 2003 12:26 PM
I can't imagining this is only licked by a clean install. At least, if most people haven't needed to get that drastic, I can't see why you would. The temporary workaround I guess is to use a URL to get to Google that the scumbag forgot. Someone mentioned www3.google.com working and indeed there are www3.* entries in the stealth hosts file (that was on my machine). This just occured to me: What if your ISP or DSN was also compromised? I guess it's possible for a machine redirecting other machines to also get infected. Just a wild guess. BJ |
| 45) Posted by: Brian Jennings October 7, 2003 12:29 PM Sorry, missing word: BJ |
| 46) Posted by: Chuck October 7, 2003 1:31 PM I deleted the host files that appear in C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\ and in c:\WINNT\Help. At first I was able to access google at ww1, ww2, and ww3.google.com, however, this thing must be getting smart because after a couple of days accessing google at ww1 it killed that one also. I also cannot access AskJeeves at http://www.ask.com/. |
| 47) Posted by: YH October 7, 2003 7:00 PM Ok folks, I dont think this should be a help ground...lets pick it up someplace else....like at some forums or something. |
| 48) Posted by: Chuck October 7, 2003 7:42 PM Sorry to bother you. I'll surf elsewhere. |
| 49) Posted by: Eric October 8, 2003 9:23 AM Great, I had the same problem as above (I was stunned). I did everything that was under post number 33 (thanks Kausik Datta) AND IT WORKED. |
| 50) Posted by: claud October 8, 2003 11:23 AM Thanks Scott. Renaming the hosts files worked. |
| 51) Posted by: Philip October 8, 2003 6:07 PM I've been having the same problems... yet none of the solutions outlined here seem to work. I have tried McAfee's manual removal instructions and Symantec's FixQhost.exe... nothing works... and there are NO tampered with hosts or lmhosts files on my hard drive! In any case... I'm sharing my latest findings: Every time I go online... this trojan adds following thing to my registry: ...It could be a new variant or something. I've been trying to chat with a McAfee support technitian... I'll let you guys know as soon as I have any news |
| 52) Posted by: Walt October 8, 2003 7:14 PM For those who are frustrated: The Trojan has You have to un-do all these changes to fix the problem. |
| 53) Posted by: Tom SHAO October 10, 2003 2:14 PM Wonderful!I go to http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=description&virus_k=100719. and get rid of the QGhost virus immediately by following manual instruction. Thanks, |
| 54) Posted by: em October 10, 2003 4:27 PM Had the issue with a computer on our LAN. Did as #33 said and it worked. For the people who it did not work for, please double-check to make sure you are displaying hidden files. |
| 55) Posted by: Tim Krugh October 10, 2003 8:11 PM THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I had the cpanel problem on my sister's computer. I thought my tech skills were going to hell in a hand basket, I tried most (if not all of the tricks) listed and her computer is back in business! Thanks Again! |
| 56) Posted by: Thomas October 11, 2003 3:46 AM For some people, Symantec or McAfee's removal tool simply won't rid your computer of QHosts. What worked for me was going into my C:\Windows\Help folder and deleting a file simply called 'hosts' If you pull this file up in Notepad, you'll see that it contains a list of search engines. Delete this file, reboot, and you should be able to search again in no time. I hope this helps, |
| 57) Posted by: Maggie October 11, 2003 8:05 AM Thank you so much, Thomas. Nothing else worked, but removing the "hosts" file was the end of my problems. |
| 58) Posted by: Shawn October 12, 2003 2:58 PM I have been going around in circles with this virus for over a week now, and NOTHING seems to be working. I have searched the web time and again for idea's on how to fix this problem, and this is the only place that seems to have any information. I have tried all of the fixes that you all have reccommended, but I still have the same problem; no access to yahoo or google (they both say "page cannot be displayed"), and on top of it my internal PC search companion does not work either! I am so frusterated, anything anyone can offer to correct this would be greatly appriciated. |
| 59) Posted by: Thor October 13, 2003 2:02 PM Shawn, did you try the manual McAfee fix? That just worked for me on my Win2K pro notebook. Why is it so hard to find info on this one? Thanks Scott. |
| 60) Posted by: Thor October 13, 2003 2:09 PM One more thing, Symantec details manual removal instructions at: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.qhosts.html They point to the importance of first disabling system restore in Me and XP. Symantec also offers a downloadable removal tool at: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.qhosts.removal.tool.html Good luck. |
| 61) Posted by: Billy October 13, 2003 7:05 PM Thanks. I had an infected system in a corporate environment. Needless to say, it was a bit baffling while I was troubleshooting it. :) The symantec fix tool did not detect in on the one machine I had that was infected. Also some, but not all of the registry values had been changed on the machine. Trend definition file 648, which is supposed to detect it, also did not pick it up. A different version of the trojan maybe? Anyway the manual removal worked. Thanks to everyone for their help! |
| 62) Posted by: AB October 14, 2003 8:45 AM It is a virus: QHOSTS-1 Came out: Sep 29,2003 The recommanded removal and patching works. |
| 63) Posted by: ScottM October 14, 2003 11:35 AM Thanks to this page I got rid of the problem! All is now well with my system - Thanks folks! |
| 64) Posted by: Mikey October 14, 2003 2:10 PM I would like to send out a thanks you for this page/discission. I work in the IT dep. for a school district and this was a life saver. We have been having all sorts of the same problems that have been detailed above and this page was a blessing for us. We were about 25 minutes away from re-imaging four 30 computer labs that "haven't been able to access search engines" until I found this. Now all we have to do is have the teachers run the patch then update our Mcafee .dats. Thanks again. |
| 65) Posted by: Mick October 15, 2003 6:52 AM I have some of the symtoms of qhosts I have no problem getting onto any webpages like google\AV but I cant use the search and some links dont work. I've patched up, gone through the registry deleted any hosts files I could find but, when going through the registry I didnt find most of the entrys mentioned in the manual removal and the host files where all just examples. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the internet protocols and now I can use the search on msn but still not google and AV. The only thing I can think of now is reinstalling IE6. |
| 66) Posted by: Steve October 15, 2003 6:58 AM Microsoft have recently updated a patch to resolve this issue at: http://www.microsoft.com/security/security_bulletins/ms03-040.asp Regards. Steve |
| 67) Posted by: Rob October 15, 2003 7:37 AM This is typically of the QHOST virus, First delete the DNS adresses in TCP/IP settings, then you should be able to google again... regards |
| 68) Posted by: Mick October 15, 2003 10:34 AM All internet and network setting are on Auto I've checked again and again. "c:\windows\help\hosts" isnt there but I ran the removal tools before looking for it so I dont know if it was ever there. |
| 69) Posted by: spflist October 16, 2003 10:04 PM The computer was infected with the trojanQhosts virus. It's |
| 70) Posted by: Bad Mouth October 17, 2003 8:04 PM Well I never had that problem because for one thing, I’m not a person who believes and depends on one thing. |
| 71) Posted by: Thanks, Kausik October 18, 2003 4:16 AM Read article # 33) Posted by: Kausik Datta |
| 72) Posted by: Phil Day October 18, 2003 6:00 PM To fix the hijacking of the Google page and many other search engines remove a hosts file that will be placed in your c:\windows\help folder. |
| 73) Posted by: jordan October 19, 2003 2:02 AM I finally fixed the problem, thanks to everyone. The easiest way I found to fix it was to do a search for the file hosts. Open each one with notepad. Delete the ones that have dates that are recent and correspond with when you got the problem. |
| 74) Posted by: gleets October 20, 2003 5:38 AM We`ve all been there..done that... read the book ..... seen the film...got the T shirt .... time and time and time again lol and eventually we find that we understand it ..and well I`ll proberbly be getting hints off you in a week or 2 |
| 75) Posted by: clifgriffin October 20, 2003 11:19 AM Guys, you keep harping on the viruses you had...but Scott's own article reveals that he didn't have those problems. The address that responded to his pings is the correct IP address. If his host file was manipulated, this wouldn't be the case. Clif |
| 76) Posted by: Sunny October 20, 2003 2:52 PM Hello there, |
| 77) Posted by: CrazzyBill October 22, 2003 2:54 PM For cpanel issue? Remove cpanel from hosts file (do a search) or delete "hosts" file. below windows\system32\drivers\etc folder. This is NOT the same as the Qhost trojan |
| 78) Posted by: Mark October 23, 2003 3:56 PM In the time that I spent looking for the "cure" to this annoying problem (difficult w/o google), I found a server on google's network which had not been hijacked by QHOST. It is: www2.google.com I hope someone else gets as much from this knowledge as I did. |
| 79) Posted by: zzzzz October 24, 2003 1:32 AM I could not access google.com or ask.com |
| 80) Posted by: myName October 28, 2003 1:24 PM a rouge search engine? ha ha |
| 81) Posted by: JabezStone November 23, 2003 12:57 AM Still having problems with Google? Check out my post on Flashkit about this problem. After running the "repair" module in Internet Expolorer's uninstall program (through control panel) everything went back to normal. Also, check this post by a user who also had this problem. Good stuff, Scott. |
| 82) Posted by: shawn January 17, 2004 5:19 AM THANK YOU. I forgot about the mods that I had made to my hosts file a while back. I could not even ping google due to my hosts file messing things up. THANKS. |
| 83) Posted by: Grunion March 15, 2004 12:58 AM Thanks so much for posting this page. I hadn't been able to access google ever since I upgraded. Then I went to download the patch from Microsoft, but for some reason, none of the .exe files would run because it couldn't recognize my version of IE although it clearly said 6.0 when I checked the version! I removed those 2 files from the WIN directory and modified that registry key (didn't need to delete the win0x registry since for some reason I didn't have them) and now I'm back on google, just by typing in the address! No more cpanel! Yes!!! |
| 84) Posted by: TomWadsworth March 26, 2004 10:10 AM I had a similar problem. I had been very happily using the Google search bar for months. Then, five days ago, I opened my browser (IE6.0) to discover that the Google search bar had been replaced with the Yahoo search bar (MyYahoo is my home page). It seemed to "take over" my browser. (1) Whenever I tried to uncheck the Yahoo search bar, it would always come back. (2) Whenever I tried to re-add my Google search bar, it would remove it and re-install the Yahoo search bar. (3) My system also locked up frequently. I finally ran Ad-Aware 6.0 (a free download), and it found that lots of new stuff had been loaded into my local registry. I then quarantined and deleted all the new stuff, and I now have my Google search bar back! |
| 85) Posted by: jennie wheeler April 20, 2004 12:03 AM I WANT THE GOOGLE TOOLBAR REMAVED FROM MY PC, IT TAKES UP TO MUCH OF MY SCREEN. |
| 86) Posted by: petee May 28, 2004 11:45 AM Ive had a nightmare getting rid of the nachi-b worm anyone got any suggestions.............shalom |
| 87) Posted by: suzyq June 14, 2004 9:36 PM thankyou so much scott i havnt been able to access google for about 5 months now and just last week i found out it was a virus. i deleted the host file from the help folder but i still had the "duplicate" that i didn't know about until i read your posting. thank you so much homework is so much easier now :) yay |
| 88) Posted by: Jen July 6, 2004 1:13 AM Hey Scott! Is this annoying or not!?? LOL! I have not been able to access www.google.com for months! No viruses have been found and I have not detected any spyware. When I bring up the url, it loads a page for cPanel and reads: 'There is no website configured at this address. You are seeing this page because there is nothing configured for the site you have requested. If you think you are seeing this page in error, please contact the site administrator or datacenter responsible for this site.' LOL! I have been using Google Malaysia! Any suggestions? |
| 89) Posted by: Tim September 8, 2004 6:24 PM Hey uguys i have not ben able to access google yahoo and many other sites. A couple stil work with other search engines such as www.www.com and some other ones. I cannot access microsoft or mcaffe.com either. I tried using differnt scanners nortone, mcaffe xoftspy spykiller found a couple of registry key viruses but that did not help my problem. If anyone knoes how to fix this please post, email isnt sop good cause i can only check it every so often. (sometimes google and yahoo work for some reason) |
| 90) Posted by: steve l October 20, 2004 8:14 AM well, i am having similar problems. my symptoms are that i cant search from the address bar (which is set to use msn) what i mean by getting stuck is that the search results are not displayed and the progress bar only gets about 1/3rd of the way. the hosts and lmhosts files both look fine. I did find a file named hosts.sbs that has a long list of site names all of which have the ip address of 127.0.0.1 Dunno if it's related, but SpyBot S&D gets stuck partway through when running it under my user acct. When i ran it under the Admin acct it got stuck so I ran AdAware and cleaned out a sexdialer and then SpyBot worked under admin, but the same solution doesnt work for my user acct :( so far virus scans have revealed nothing :( if i ever get it fixed will post again here. I'm just glad i found this page; let's me know that it's not just me and has hopefully pointed me in the right direction for fixing it. steve |
| 91) Posted by: Ray Capararo October 30, 2004 9:52 PM If you get the above problems with google in SBS2003 then go to dns management and change your DNS forwarder's to another DNS server. This worked for me both times I had this problem |
| 92) Posted by: Mike November 26, 2004 11:43 AM Everything waas reaaaally neat but i still cant fix the problem. Hijackthis shows me the following: Running processes: R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Page = http://www.microsoft.com/isapi/redir.dll?prd=ie&ar=iesearch On top of all the others ive formated my pc 3 times in 2 days and i still face the same problem!!! If anyone has anything to suggest apart from those listed above i would build a totem with his face on it in the middle of my room and worship it every day. Thanx everyone in advance |
| 93) Posted by: jerry grosman January 17, 2005 11:13 PM can not access google.com but all others work. I am using a cell phone to get on the internet. When I goto a land line google works fine. Reformated and reloaded xp and sp2, then everything worked. Tried for many days and reformating was the only thing that worked. |
| 94) Posted by: becky March 6, 2005 12:06 AM I had the same problem with google not loading, but other sites worked fine. I discovered that if I turned off Protowall then everything loaded normally. Havent figured out how to fix it though. |
| 95) Posted by: Graham April 16, 2005 6:39 PM Hey just a point of interest, i have the total opposite problem! |
| 96) Posted by: Nicki April 28, 2005 1:29 PM Good thing I came across this site. |
| 97) Posted by: Jitu May 2, 2005 1:20 AM If your computer is behind a router, your problem may be that your routing table has been populated with erroneous routing information. In my case, any sites within a certain IP block (including www.google.com and www.hotmail.com) were going being routed to a useless (private) IP address. To see if this is the case look at your "advanced routing table" on your administrative screen (e.g. http://192.168.1.1 on your linksys router). If you see a whack of entries, reset your router, and it should fix it. |
| 98) Posted by: Graham May 2, 2005 6:18 AM By the way i sorted my problem ages ago but i forgot the addy for this site so thaks for posting. What i had done is mistyped my default gateway so everything was being sent in to oblivion. I don't know why google worked, maybe it has some sort of way of telling my computer where to send it back to? Anyway, that problem of page cannot be displayed could well be because Mcaffe is blocking network traffic (which would include internet for you) so if you tell it to allow the ip address of your router (192.168.1.1 i think) then it might work. To determine if the firewall or the router is the problem, shutdown the firewall (just for a minute because you don't want any hackers) and try it then. If it still doesn't work then Jitu had the right idea. |
| 99) Posted by: Graham May 2, 2005 6:25 AM Has anyone here actually got a problem by the way because people only seem to post when they fix it at the moment and it isn't quite as fun just pointing out alternatives to what they did in the hope that someone with the same problem might turn up and see the answer |
| 100) Posted by: Kelly May 4, 2005 2:49 PM I really wish I had found this site last week! I had the rerouted google, and finally reformated my hard drive. I had to install windows 2000 pro. I am no computer guru, so I decided I would be safer not to log on as administrator in case I completely accidently screw something up. my google and search engines work on administrator, but not on the other identities. I am in europe, i can access google.de,.ch.,.fr, but they won't let me switch to english. The pages come up, but don't do anything.I hope I am not annoying anyone with a topic switch, but I can't find anything else that might be helpful. I wrote to google, but I am hoping someone here can help me. If it is a computer setting, please tell me what it is, I have NO idea what to do. Thanx |
| 101) Posted by: kelly May 4, 2005 2:51 PM sorry, P.S. |
| 102) Posted by: Vilas May 8, 2005 6:35 AM I had this problem last time about a month ago and the workaround that time was to uninstall firefox and system restore. But Google was once again blocked for me three days ago. This tme nothing worked. I tried scott's ping solution and typed the IP address for google directly in the address bar. it did not work. What worked this time was the Anonymizer workaround. So now I have the anonymizer as my starting page. Incidently can anybody please tell me how to locate and check the "Hosts" file? |
| 103) Posted by: Graham May 8, 2005 8:33 AM Ok a bit of help for anyone who wants it. Firstly it's a good idea to clear cookies and stuff when you have an internet problem. So in the internet explorer window go on tools, intenet options. Then click delete cookies and OK then delete files and OK. Secondly try downloading an alternate browser such as firefox (http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/) and see if you have the same problems ( you might want to click no when it asks whether you want to migrate settings in case it migrates a setting that's messed up) Thirdly get some sort of spyware checker (i reccomend microsoft antispyware from http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx or adaware personal) and run a spyware scan. Remove anything it finds. Now the hosts file: |
| 104) Posted by: Zen May 19, 2005 6:16 AM This is for Becky, the user who couldn't access Google using the IP Filter and Blocking program "Protowall" Copy of the letter I sent her: Hi Becky, I just got Protowall myself and I found out I couldn’t use Google either. I found out that Protowall blocks Google and has it listed in it’s IP Filter log file. If you go to the following file: C:\Program Files\Dudez\ProtoWall\ipfilter.p2p and open it up using a Text editor like Wordpad or Notebad, you can then do a text search for any reference to Google and erase those entries and your Google will work again with your Protowall!! Repeat this with any other website that you are having difficulty accessing. Happy googling. Zen www.zen-pc.com/forums |
| 105) Posted by: Johm June 6, 2005 1:24 AM I had the same problem but thanks to Spyboy S&D It Works again for some odd reason. |
| 106) Posted by: John June 6, 2005 1:28 AM It is a pain without google. I had the same problem and thanks to the things i have read, spybot s&d did the trick for me. Thanks. |
| 107) Posted by: ben May 6, 2006 3:45 AM i went to start than it tell me to go to run tape in ping goole.com and i don't now what to look for? |
| 108) Posted by: Evance Leopt August 4, 2006 6:52 AM I would like to wish you much luck. And a lot of money. Thank you. |
| 109) Posted by: Morgan Freeman September 12, 2006 10:00 PM Very many thanks for a good work. Nice and useful. Like it! |
| 110) Posted by: Kugel Margo September 20, 2006 10:52 PM Very many thanks for a good work. Nice and useful. Like it! |
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