Exactly.

Roger Wright
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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?
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> *From:* Joe Tinney [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Friday, December 18, 2009 3:20 PM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: Search strangeness
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> Have you checked the HOSTS file?
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> *From:* John Aldrich [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Friday, December 18, 2009 3:16 PM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* Search strangeness
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> 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.
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> 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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