Long startup off IE6 related to QHost Trojan?

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Magnus Westman

Got the Qhost Trojan on my system. After trying everything else i deleted
all my edits in the hosts-file (seems to actually have done my whole cpu
slower).

Now, at the same time i experienced the problem with not being able to
connect to google.com etc my startupsequence of IE6 took about 3-5minutes.
The mesage i got was "identifying proxy.."-sumthing. This problem i never
had before. Usually it takes notime to startup IE6.

Thanks for any help on this because my problem persists.

Magnus Westman
 
Have you updated your virus definitions and afterwards run a full system
scan, Magnus?

Trojan.QHosts (including a Removal Tool)
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.qhosts.html

Check for hijackware, too:

Dealing with Unwanted Spyware
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

These days most of us are recommending HijackThis: Post your files to the
forum mentioned on the above page.

If you cannot access the page to download HijackThis, use this link:
http://216.180.252.218/~spywareinfo.com/downloads/tools/hijackthis.zip

If you find you need CoolWebSearch Shredder, use this link:
http://216.180.252.218/~spywareinfo.com/downloads/tools/cwshredder.zip
(Get a fresh copy of CWS Shredder before each use. It's updated
frequently.)

Also update your virus definitions and then run a full system scan. From
now on do both once-a-day.
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HTH...Please post back to this thread

~Robear Dyer (aka PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE)
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
AH-VSOP
http://forum.aumha.org/

 
Don´t have that problem anymore. Did a lot of things so I can´t isolate what
fixed it. Now my
speed at surfing have been lowered though. It was however lowered earlier. A
file
named "~" appeared on my desktop. Did a full virusscan but nothing showed
up. Pretty
certain my problem is related to something with this file and simply
deleting it won´t help.

I suspect the problems are relted to the qhost trojan problem.

..magnus
 
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