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The Trojan.Sinkin is thought to be an ad-aware program, but is being labeled as a virus. I have it on this computer, and I have removed it, it no longer changes my Homepage, or AOL Info, but I still cannot search with any search engines. IE google, yahoo, msn. I have heard it is fairly easy to remove, but I am having extreme difficulty getting it out.
 
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Yeags said:
The Trojan.Sinkin is thought to be an ad-aware program, but is being
labeled as a virus. I have it on this computer, and I have removed it, it
no longer changes my Homepage, or AOL Info, but I still cannot search with
any search engines. IE google, yahoo, msn. I have heard it is fairly easy
to remove, but I am having extreme difficulty getting it out.
 
Search engine problems.

Qhosts virus/trojan, ALERT!.

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.qhosts.html
http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100719.htm
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojqhosts1.html

Removal tools that have been used with success.
http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/CIS/Software_Services/virus/index.html
http://software.brown.edu/dist/w-cleanqhosts.html

Be sure that you install hotfix 828750 which fixes the exploit that this
virus uses:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/critical/828750/default.asp




Yeags said:
The Trojan.Sinkin is thought to be an ad-aware program, but is being
labeled as a virus. I have it on this computer, and I have removed it, it
no longer changes my Homepage, or AOL Info, but I still cannot search with
any search engines. IE google, yahoo, msn. I have heard it is fairly easy
to remove, but I am having extreme difficulty getting it out.
 
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