You picked up a evil web page and a trojan virus that changed your Hosts
file. Try to immediatly update your computer with Windows Update, use an
updated antivirus program and Spybot Search & Destroy to clean your system.
Microsoft released a pátch to fix this vulnerability just this past week,
if I'm right. Depending on your OS, the Hosts file is located in different
places on your hard drive, you will have to search for it. Symantec and
other companys have detailed instructions how to edit the file to put it
right again. Here is a direct link:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.qhosts.html
There is also a tool there that can do the job for you.
Howard Rubin
The Computer Doctor
Fortaleza, Brazil
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 21:39:41 -0500
From: Dave Moore <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: websearch problems
When opening my internet explorer browser, I will key in one of the =
search engines like google.com or ask.com. When this happens, a strange =
window comes up with the title "cPanel" that tells me "There is no =
website configured at this address." Can someone give me some help to =
help me reconfigure my browser to allow me to access these sites. It =
does the same thing for alta-vista and hotbot. Thanks in advance for =
your assitance.
Dave
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