IE6 won't let me do an address bar search

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Angus Macdonald

I am running Windows XP Home edition and am on broadband.
I get all the Windows updates and download them whenever
I am notified! Since the latest one, I have not been able
to use the address bar to do a search. The address bar
sees the search term as an internet address and obviously
the search fails ("The page cannot be displayed"). I have
clicked on the Search button as Microsoft says, but am
not given an option to 'Change preferences'. There is
only a 'Customize' option, but no matter how many times I
tell the Autosearch to use google for address bar
searches, nothing is changed. I have the correct options
in the Internet Tools section (in fact I had never had
cause to change any of the settings, apart from initially
making "just display the results in the main window" the
default
I have IE6 (release 6.0.2800.1106.xpsp2.030422.1633IS,
128 bit).
Is this a known fault? What can be done to restore the
address bar search function?
 
 
-----Original Message-----
Qhosts virus/trojan, ALERT!.

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/t rojan.qhosts.html
http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100719.htm
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojqhosts1.html

Removal tools that have been used with success.
http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/CIS/Software_Services/vir us/index.html
http://software.brown.edu/dist/w-cleanqhosts.html

Be sure that you install hotfix 828750 which fixes the exploit that this
virus uses:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/critical/82 8750/default.asp







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Thanks for the reply. I did these things, but the problem
persists. I suspect the software didn't do its job. I
downloaded a DOS virus scan package from McAfee after i
contacted them with the problem (even my McAfee virus
scan seems to have been compromised - it only scans 53
files on a "Complete scan" and stops). The download found
the W32/Inmota.worm virus in the HP Scanner driver files
(I have an HP computer but not an HP scanner) and in the
System Restore directory and deleted these. I also tried
the Windows IE security patch 828750 but that fails,
saying I need to have IE6 installed (!!!!) - the browser
i was using!!!! Help! What can I do?
 
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