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Old October 4th, 2003, 05:03 PM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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Can't do any kind of web search...

Not one web search engine will work. IE... Google, yahoo, msn... If I type something in it comes up with "page cannot be displayed". I can't go to google's website either.

I can type in the actual webaddresses and can get around the net fine. (other than google)

Has anyone run into this before? I have run ad-ware and anti-vrus with nothing wrong. It just started today.
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Old October 4th, 2003, 05:05 PM     #2 (permalink)
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Try clearing your cookies and temporary internet files.
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Old October 4th, 2003, 06:07 PM     #3 (permalink)
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Already did that too.
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Old October 5th, 2003, 01:29 AM     #4 (permalink)
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You probably have some nasty little spyware or hijacker on the system.

Here's some info that will help you find/remove it.

HijackThis Quickstart
Computing.net thread
SpywareInfo.com article, which recommends Spybot Search & Destroy to remove any hijackers.

Hope this helps a bit.
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I tried Search & Destroy, Hijack This, CWShredder, My AVG Anti-Virus, and Ad-Aware. Nothing fixed the problem.

So... I am on a nice freshly formatted C: drive now.
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