msn auto search

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Michael

I recently removed the 'internet optimiser' parasite, how
do i enable msn to do auto-searches when i mistype pages,
i now receive blank pages. where can i change these
settings? thanks
 
Hi Michael - What you're seeing is the redirection to Verisign's Sitefinder
which is happening because of a (scandalous) "hijacking" of the *.com and
*.net wild card address forms (the subject of a lot of debate/lawsuits/etc
right now). Open Notepad and enter the information between the lines
(not including the lines:

_________________

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl]
""="http://search.msn.com/results.asp?q=%s"
" "="+"
"+"="%2B"
"&"="%26"
"="="%3D"
"Provider"="Microsoft"
"#"="%23"
"?"="%3F"
________________


Save this as MSNSearchFix.reg . Now double click on this file to
execute it, and say yes when asked.

See if that fixes the search from Address Bar back to MSN for you. (It may
not with Verisign in the picture. You may need to install BindPE Delegate
which fixes (at least for the moment) the Verisign problem.)


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Please respond in the same thread.
Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP



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Also Michael, be sure that you go into the Search Bar, Customize, Autosearch
Settings and select MSN. :)

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Please respond in the same thread.
Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP



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I placed the registry key and made sure that msn was
slected for autosearch, but it looks like verigsign is
playing the game fairly well because I still can't get
rid of it.. any more suggestions

thanks^3
 
Michael said:
I placed the registry key and made sure that msn was
slected for autosearch, but it looks like verigsign is
playing the game fairly well because I still can't get
rid of it.. any more suggestions
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block sitefinder.versign.com in your "hosts" file

eg

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 sitefinder.verisign.com
 
Thank you so much, everything is back to normal and seems
fine (hopefully it stays this way), I appreciate
everyone's help and suggestions.

sincerely,

Michael B.
-----Original Message-----
Finally a fix for this. Seems that the yoogee hijacker causes this and
removing it does not restore the system.
The fix that finally worked for me was HijackThis
http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/ and selecting the "fix" for URLsearch
hook.(noname). Also see
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http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm for more
 
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