Help! Google redirecting to other s/engines ...

Reluctant_spender

Ok - try this.

Double click on the Hijack this icon
You will be presented with a number of options. Fourth one down - Open Misc Tools or similar.
Under System tools you should see open host file manager.
Click on open notepad and copy and paste the contents here.

Reluctant_spender

MimiJane wrote: »

Thanks ... had a blonde moment and didn't recognise this as link!

What's the mention of Firefox about though in red? I have IE8, so will it work with this and is it worth trying?

Do you use Firefox or even have it installed?

If yes run it.

surfer_blue

i know this sounds ridiculous but it cant be "BING" forwarding can it?

if they are just using IE, could it be bufferoverflow, theres a lot of proggys running there

im just throwing ideas up guys...its along time since i did this stuff and aint au fait with the latest trash that infects...it appears to me to be a polymorph type thing which suggests the reg...but it could be spawned via the registry...or hopefully by the hosts file(spybot can replace hosts file easily????)

Reluctant_spender

MimiJane wrote: »

........ except on bleeping computers and p.c. won't let me get to it!

Hear what you are saying but they are being blocked from visiting legit Security Sites - Bing wont do that.

surfer_blue

as this man says

try using a different brwoser...(firefox) if it lets you in its likely to be a BHO or similar otherwise its the hosts file....unless its a damn mutating !!!!er, which can be found out by killing stuff i task manager....please let these guys sort it, im just thinking out loud in the hope i might help or give an idea...so please just follow their logical processes

surfer_blue

Reluctant_spender wrote: »

Hear what you are saying but they are being blocked from visiting legit Security Sites - Bing wont do that.

tha sounds like a trojan! downloading polymrph viruses??? and its not showing in processes..maybe an online scan if everything has been compromised???...you guys decide

Reluctant_spender

surfer_blue wrote: »

tha sounds like a trojan! and its not showing in processes..maybe an online scan if everything has been compromised???...you guys decide

I would suggest that if it won't allow the op to get to Bleeping Computers then online scans will be blocked too.

surfer_blue

thats a fair point.....is it worth doing netstat-a via run command to see where its going or am i being paranoid?

surfer_blue

also there is a quick way of destroying a host file (which i forgot but can find) and then windows replaces automatically? or i might be wrong ( iused to do this stuff with XP..so i do apologise if i am wasting your time as you guys seem very good)

it used to be with this

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts2.htm but i dont think i can post links?

Reluctant_spender

Lets see what the tools produce - something is blocking them.