Wierd IE Problem

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Hi guys...I am working on my mother's computer...running Win2K Pro...and her IE has a problem. It will go to all sites, except for search engines. No matter what engine I try, IE will not open it. I am currently running a virus scan on it, and have already run Spybot...any other ideas? Also, all cache and cookies have been deleted.

Thanks.

-Nathan A.
 
Hmm, doesn't sound like it would be a DNS issue if IE can reach most other sites. You could try the "end all to be all" IE fix...

Open the command prompt and type the following, one at a time, hitting <enter> after each.

regsvr32 urlmon.dll
regsvr32 actxprxy.dll
regsvr32 shdocvw.dll
regsvr32 msjava.dll
regsvr32 oleaut32.dll
regsvr32 mshtml.dll
regsvr32 browseui.dll
regsvr32 shell32.dll
 
Hmm...no viruses found. Spybot and AdAware came up short. Tried the above suggestion, and it did not work either...any other ideas???

Thanks.

-Nathan
 
I forgot to mention that whenever I try to go to a search engine, the url of the error page puts "www.*.org" aroung my intended url. For example, if I type "www.google.com," than I get "www.www.google.com.org" as the url in the error page.

-Nathan
 
I figured out that it was indeed that malicious code that screws with the DNS. It works now. Thanks, guys!

-Nathan
 
Interesting that I ended up seeing this same problem on a friend's computer tonight. I actually figured out that it was the hosts file before I came back and read the forum here, but it's good to know the trick (in the registry) to prevent it.
 

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