need help ---cant get to one website

[dap]

I cannot get to google.com. I can get to any other
website. The page tries to load but it takes forever and
then I get "page cannot be displayed". I have reset the
speed of the nic card to 100 full, cleared the internet
cache, lowered the History folder size to 5 days, lowered
the size of the temporary internet files folder to 10
megs, checked the security and privacy tabs in Internet
Explorer, upgraded to IE 6 Service Pack1, checked the
lmhosts files, all tcpip is dhcp. Still nothing. Nada.
Anybody ever seen this one? And yes I have tried
google.com and www.google.com and www.google.com.

 

[siljaline]

I cannot get to google.com. I can get to any other
website. The page tries to load but it takes forever and
then I get "page cannot be displayed". I have reset the
speed of the nic card to 100 full, cleared the internet
cache, lowered the History folder size to 5 days, lowered
the size of the temporary internet files folder to 10
megs, checked the security and privacy tabs in Internet
Explorer, upgraded to IE 6 Service Pack1, checked the
lmhosts files, all tcpip is dhcp. Still nothing. Nada.
Anybody ever seen this one? And yes I have tried
google.com and www.google.com and www.google.com.

Info:
http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.qhosts.html

<quote / unquote Mike Burgess>
Trojan Qhosts hijacks the HOSTS file, however unlike normal redirectors,
this one hides the HOSTS file in the "Windows\Help" folder.

See: http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
Download: either "RenHelpHostXP.bat" or RenHelpHostME.bat"
Follow up with the link provided instructions .......
</snip>

Get the latest hotfix: http://www.microsoft.com/security/security_bulletins/ms03-040.asp

If no joy, run the Beta "Hijack This" utility which detects the HOSTS file that has been taken over.
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/beta/hijackthis.zip
Hijack This, How-to: http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

More info: http://www.spywareinfo.com/newsletter/archives/0903/30.php

HTH

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siljaline MS MVP IE/OE

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[Pat]

It's part of the Trojan Qhost virus that the microsoft
patch did not correct.
I was able to download a patch from McAfee that corrects
the problem