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  • Thread starter Thread starter Mark Knowlden
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Hi,

It sounds like you've been infected with the Trojan.Qhost bug.
The new Qhosts bug exploits the unpatched residual vulnerability in
MS03-032.

Information regarding this can be found here.
http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100719.htm and
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.qhosts.html

The removal tool for this trojan is available here:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.qhosts.removal.tool.html

The bug sets all search values to google. You may wish to change your
configuration on your Internet
Explorer search settings as desired, if you don't want google.

To prevent this exploit, install the critical update described by
bulletin MS03-040 and KB828750. To test your browser vulnerability to
this exploit, see http://www.secunia.com/MS03-032/.
 
I ran symantec FixQhost.exe and it came back anyway (I
also turned off system restore) I can get msn and yahoo
search engines but not Google and Alti-Vista, my bug must
be a variation of this other bug. :-( still not fixed!
 
Sorry...you have the Qhosts trojan -- see McAfee site for
manual cleanup -- it is reading a bogus hosts file and
taking all your requests for search engines and
redirecting them to the CPanel site.

Manual cleanup of files/registry is the only thing that
worked for me.
 
I FIXED IT! THANK YOU!
-----Original Message-----

Sorry...you have the Qhosts trojan -- see McAfee site for
manual cleanup -- it is reading a bogus hosts file and
taking all your requests for search engines and
redirecting them to the CPanel site.

Manual cleanup of files/registry is the only thing that
worked for me.


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