Exactly. Roger Wright ___
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 3:49 PM, John Aldrich <[email protected]>wrote: > 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? > > > > [image: John-Aldrich][image: Tile-Tools] > > > > *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. > > > > [image: John-Aldrich][image: Tile-Tools] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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