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Doesnt matter if I use firefox, IE. or opera. I can not search for anything.
I have also tried other search engines those don't work either.
Some help pls.
Edit: Moved topic from XP to the more appropriate forum. ~ Animal
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Posted 29 December 2009 - 03:43 AM
Hi and Welcome to BleepingComputer,
What do you mean that they don't work? What happens when you try to do a search?
What do you mean that they don't work? What happens when you try to do a search?
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Posted 29 December 2009 - 04:31 PM
It just brings up a blank page.
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Posted 30 December 2009 - 08:13 PM
I have the exact same problem, the only search engine that mine doesn't show up blank is bing. However, i really like to use google.
I posted my own topic about this a couple days ago and no one replied to me.
I posted my own topic about this a couple days ago and no one replied to me.
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Posted 31 December 2009 - 01:07 PM
I am also having the same issue as well. Google nor Bing comes up. Says that there is a connection timeout. All other sites works.
Ran Malwarebytes and it came up clean. AVG comes up clean. Combo-fix comes up clean.
google comes up by using using http://74.125.127.99/ but as soon as you do a search the address switched to google.com/xxxx and the connection times out again.
Any other thoughts?
Ran Malwarebytes and it came up clean. AVG comes up clean. Combo-fix comes up clean.
google comes up by using using http://74.125.127.99/ but as soon as you do a search the address switched to google.com/xxxx and the connection times out again.
Any other thoughts?
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Posted 01 January 2010 - 03:48 PM
I am still waiting for help, but have any of you guys figured the problem out yet?
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Posted 01 January 2010 - 04:09 PM
nope not yet i have ran everything i can get my hands to try and fix it.
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Posted 02 January 2010 - 04:09 AM
janell377, on Jan 1 2010, 03:48 PM, said:
I am still waiting for help, but have any of you guys figured the problem out yet?
To start YOU off... I see you had some help with programs on this thread of yours
Have you yet updated and rerun any of the programs suggested on that thread,especially the Malwarebytes program?
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Posted 02 January 2010 - 10:45 PM
Yes. Everything is up to date and i've done multiple scans and nothing is ever found. However the malwarebytes program is no longer opening up when i open it for some reason, so tomorrow im going to reinstall that.
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Posted 03 January 2010 - 10:00 AM
janell377, on Jan 2 2010, 10:45 PM, said:
Yes. Everything is up to date and i've done multiple scans and nothing is ever found. However the malwarebytes program is no longer opening up when i open it for some reason, so tomorrow im going to reinstall that.
as some malware likes to stop legitimate programs from running, maybe see this to help you rename the exe of the Malwarebytes program
http://www.myantispyware.com/2009/06/08/ma...-how-to-fix-it/
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For example, before you save Malwarebytes Anti-malware, rename mbam-setup.exe to something like mapp.exe (or use any random name) and then click on Save and save it to your desktop. Double Click mapp.exe to install the application.
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Posted 05 January 2010 - 07:18 PM
it works now and i got rid of all things that were infected, but google search still doesn't work.
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Posted 08 January 2010 - 08:46 PM
I FIXED MINE!!
okay I don't know if this will work for everyone but i guess its worth a try.
When researching about the problem someone was telling me there might be a bad HOSTS file. So I restored it back to its default settings. I went to this site and it took 2 mins total to fix.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972034
That explains it all and after you do that it will tell you to restart and the problem is no longer there. After 2 weeks my google and yahoo search shows up with results!!
hope this works for u guys and let me know!
okay I don't know if this will work for everyone but i guess its worth a try.
When researching about the problem someone was telling me there might be a bad HOSTS file. So I restored it back to its default settings. I went to this site and it took 2 mins total to fix.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972034
That explains it all and after you do that it will tell you to restart and the problem is no longer there. After 2 weeks my google and yahoo search shows up with results!!
hope this works for u guys and let me know!
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