Was hit by a redirector

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Ian MacKinnon

Folks,

I have a great virus scanner that I update on a daily
basis however, I was hit by something that flew above the
scanner's ability.

I was hit by something that I call a redirector. Whenever
I try to access a search engine, even through a separate
web page I would be re directed to a domain name selling
service. It would also change the search. For instance,
if I typed in www.google.ca, it would show
www.www.google.ca.com and then go to this domain selling
service. Argh !

The only way I found to fix this puppy was to delete the
hosts.* file out of windows directory thereby making
internet searching impossible slow.

How do I fix this ?

Thanks.

Ian.
 
Should of read the group....put my host file back
in...edited it with nopad..and bobs your uncle.

You learn something every day :)

Thanks

Ian.
 
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October 2003, Cumulative Patch for Internet Explorer (828750)
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