dougies549

Hi Guys
Hope you can help me

My wife started the computer the night and immediatly blamed me, when she typed in the likes of tesco it came up Page not found and went onto a **** site page.

I tried all the usual fixes but nothing seems to move this.

I am on outlook express 7 got norton anti virus,

If i go into my favourites and open them that way there is no problems, if i type in the full web address it will also come up, this has only just started happening.

It looks like the search engine side of things which is google, but when i change the search engine the problem is still there.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Cheers Dougie

bugeyeandy

Download Ad-aware and run it. Should take care of things.

Ad-Aware SE Personal Edition - Free Software Downloads and Software Reviews - Download.com

DJ Dunk

iTrader: (5)

Also check your hosts file for dodgy entries that Spyware has put in . . . .

Assuming XP:

My Computer >Local Disk(C) >Windows >System32 >Drivers >etc >hosts

dougies549

Hi Bugeyeandy

I was looking to try and eliminate everything first before buying software, but when doing the free download it is picking up a few points, probably have to go this route though

Hi Dj Dunk

Nothing untoward in there


Is there a free spyware outthere to try first?

Cheers Dougie

DJ Dunk

iTrader: (5)

The personal edition as posted above is free

Ad-Aware SE Personal - Lavasoft

Also try Spybot:

The home of Spybot-S&D!

dougies549

Hi M8

Yip its free to download and free to scan but to clean out it requires a registration code which is the part that then costs.

Cheers Dougie

bugeyeandy

Sorry Dougie, never had a bad infestation like that. Didn't know you needed to pay for some of it's features.
Anyway as DJ Dunk mentioned try Spybot S&D that is definately totally free

The home of Spybot-S&D!

pimmo2000

iTrader: (6)

its a DNS lookup issue mate

start, control pannel (classic view) network connections, right click the internet icon or local area connection (the icon that represents your internt) on the general tab click internet protocol TCP/IP and clcik properties, set the DNS to auto

Bobs your uncle

dougies549

Hi Guys

Thats me done now. Back to normality heres hoping it dosnt come back when restarted

Cheers Dougie

pimmo2000

iTrader: (6)

what fixed it?

DJ Dunk

iTrader: (5)

Just ran Ad-Aware Personal it works fine. Mine only found cookies (luckily) but it cleans out without paying

dougies549

Hi pimmo

It was actually the ad ware one that did it, i did it first then replied that it had fixed it and that is when i saw your reply, I must admit i did follow your instructions as a back up and it was on the one that you suggested to put in onto.

Cheers for all the help


Cheers Dougie