Search no longer works

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I had a ton of spyware on my computer that kept referring
me to the wrong websites when I typed in a search item in
the address bar. Before these spyware attacked my
computer, I had been able to type anything in the address
bar and MSN would come up with an automatic search. Now
that I've removed all that junk, if I type anything in
the address bar for search, (for example 'microsoft') I
get this: http:///? microsoft and a 404 error on the
screen.

There is no search - it just tries to take me to a
website exactly as what's typed in. As I said, before
the spyware, if I typed 'microsoft' in the address bar, I
got search results for 'microsoft'. I thought if I could
just reload IE I would be OK, but because I have 'a more
update version' I can't even do that. Any suggestions?
Thanks!
 
Make sure that you got all of the spyware I had to
manunaly remove some from my registry and I had to go to
safe mode for it to work. Rember always make a backup of
the registry befor making changes.
 
Wesley said:
I had a ton of spyware on my computer that kept referring
me to the wrong websites when I typed in a search item in
the address bar. Before these spyware attacked my
computer, I had been able to type anything in the address
bar and MSN would come up with an automatic search. Now
that I've removed all that junk, if I type anything in
the address bar for search, (for example 'microsoft') I
get this: http:///? microsoft and a 404 error on the
screen.

There is no search - it just tries to take me to a
website exactly as what's typed in. As I said, before
the spyware, if I typed 'microsoft' in the address bar, I
got search results for 'microsoft'. I thought if I could
just reload IE I would be OK, but because I have 'a more
update version' I can't even do that. Any suggestions?
Thanks!
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What did you use to get rid of the Spyware? Whatever it was has left
some unwanted guests -
If you haven't already, try Ad-aware *and* SpyBot S&D.
Lavasoft/Ad-aware home: http://www.lavasoftusa.com
Direct download -
http://ftp.pcworld.com/pub/new/privacy___security/aaw6181.exe

SpyBot direct download -
http://studserver.uni-dortmund.de/~su1669/spybotsd12.exe
SpyBot home: http://security.kolla.de/
SpyBot How-To: http://www.tomcoyote.org/SPYBOT/
More detailed help: http://tomcoyote.org/~mosaic1/spybot/

Install, reboot, read FAQ and overview, use online update feature to obtain
the
latest reference files, scan for Spyware much like you would with your
pre-installed anti-virus scanner.

HTH

--

siljaline

"Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game
because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from
-- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free
time."
- Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_
 
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