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Here is the scoup My friend sent me the problem description below. he is not too computer savy so I don't think running the hijack this and deleting files would be a good chioce he is quite a ways from my house and I do not have time to drive out there any time soon. (My homepage is set to view my yahoo settings when I open explorer the homepage loads fine but when I try to click on a link after a couple minutes I get a DNS error that it could not connect to the internet (like my cable was unplugged) . Also if I go to google and do a search, the results come up and when I click on one of those links I get the same DNS error. but If i go to msn.com all the links open and when I search and click on one of the results link it goes through. similarly if I type the URL of a website in the address bar it goes to the specified page.) has any body heard of this problem. he is currently using the Mcafee spyware detector but am not sure on how good it is. Would pest patrol be a better choice for detection and removal of spyware?