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zip86

11-02-2003, 11:24 PM

When I try to enter www.google.com or ask.com, a website called c-panel comes up and says "There is no website configured at this address." The search engines on msn and yahoo don't work either. The only search engine I've been able to use is dogpile.com. Does anyone know whats going on? Help.

james8547

11-02-2003, 11:34 PM

Run ad-aware and spybot. Chances are you went to a site that has malicious coding.

You may want to check this also:
http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=78657

Redo40

11-02-2003, 11:46 PM

Qhosts (http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.qhosts.html)

zip86

11-03-2003, 09:31 PM

It sure sounds like its Qhosts but I d/l the fixer and it didn't find Qhosts on the computer. I have done spyware/antivirus searches over a million times. Ne other suggestions?

Redo40

11-03-2003, 10:48 PM

Is this a windows xp machine? If so, try glc's tip on flushing dns. Open the command prompt and type ipconfig /flushdns

Let us know how it works out.

cuffs007

11-04-2003, 01:40 AM

Hey

sounds exactly like what happened to me... i didnt have any qhosts virus, but GLC had a neat trick that did the job for me and i'm just fine.. so check out: http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=76637 and a little over 2/3 down check out his reply that says "Check your HOSTS file. Search for it - it's HOSTS with NO extension - rename it to HOSTS.OLD and try it."

good luck!
:)