Something to that effect, yes.  Time to get out MBAM, Combofix, 
Superantispyware, etc.

 

From: John Aldrich [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 3:50 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Search strangeness

 

Dang! That’s what it was! Any idea how that got there? Do you think it was some 
sort of malware that put the hosts file on there to redirect to another site 
and it was being blocked by the antivirus?

 

  

 

From: Joe Tinney [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 3:20 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Search strangeness

 

Have you checked the HOSTS file?

 

From: John Aldrich [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 3:16 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Search strangeness

 

One of my users is unable to get to any search engine. I tried loading FireFox 
on there as well as IE and in both cases the browser times out before loading 
any search site. I can get to the front page of Yahoo, but when I attempt to 
search for something, it gives me a timeout error. PC is a Dell Optiplex 740 
with about a Gig of RAM, Windows XP Pro SP3, with Vipre Enterprise loaded on it.

Any suggestions? I’ve seen where malware will block IE, but never seen it block 
FireFox, and everything else in IE and Firefox seem to work, just no searching 
allowed. Also, Vipre has not found any malware on there.

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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