google and IE problems


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Right, the other day the internet on windows stopped working, but now its fixed but that isnt the problem, the problem is since ive got the net working again (a change of network card) every website works for me except for www.google.*, if i type the url in, it doesnt work.... if i find a link to google and click that, it doesnt work... click on it from the history, it doesnt work and so on.

Would anyone know what the problem is? or have any form of solution

thanks :)

edit: yeah, ive tried accessing google from other web browsers too and that doesnt work.

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Same problem here. I can access yahoo, but can't search. Can access toolbar.google.com, but not google.com. I downloaded the google.qhosts trojan scanner, but it didn't find anything. It's been like this most of the afternoon. I wonder if this has something to do with Verisign.

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This seems to be a virus or malicious code that creates Host files with bogus references to invalid web pages.

search your harddrive for files named "hosts" no extension

open the file in notepad

if you find references to websites you are trying to access, but they have the wrong ip address, then you should be looking for viruses or spyware on your machine

you may try deleting them, but it is very likely they will come right back

to find out if the ip is legit, visit www.codefux.com/tools and ping the address by name (ex. www.google.com = 216.239.53.99)

note: the site may have more then one ip address, but typically starts the same ex. 216.x.x.x

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same thing happen to me the day i got my router, which was days ago... fixed it the next day, deleted stuff out of my hosts file... and just 2 nights ago... i found out it was that qhost worm, heh.

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