Guest sweetyls Posted October 15, 2003 Report Share Posted October 15, 2003 Help! Sorry, super offtopic. Don't know where I can ask for help. For some reason I can't access any search engines... Google.com, Ask.com, Search.msn.com, etc. I think it started when I clicked an ad for INFO.COM. Just so you know, info.com is a search engine, searching through search engines. Gets? Anyway, that's the only search engine I can access now. I think there's some sort of spyware with info.com's ad, but it can't be detected by adaware... Or it's probly something else. And I want my google back...!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sonborj Posted October 15, 2003 Report Share Posted October 15, 2003 you cant access google from your SAP? or from your PC ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest runab0ut Posted October 15, 2003 Report Share Posted October 15, 2003 i bet she's using a PC man... open your task manager... look for a suspicious program in there and end that applications process off. you may try other spyware detection engines like spycop. better yet update your adaware lookup file and run an anti virus software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sweetyls Posted October 15, 2003 Report Share Posted October 15, 2003 sa pc e. there's no suspicious programs running naman e. and my adaware's updated. wahhh...!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest runab0ut Posted October 15, 2003 Report Share Posted October 15, 2003 try going to internet options> programs> reset web settings on your IE browser. remember the settings you have before doing this, it'll bring it back to its dfault settings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sweetyls Posted October 16, 2003 Report Share Posted October 16, 2003 ok will do that... i'll see what'll happen -- still won't work... :cry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest aldousbee Posted October 16, 2003 Report Share Posted October 16, 2003 @sweetyls tried using another "real" browser? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest runab0ut Posted October 16, 2003 Report Share Posted October 16, 2003 well try flushing all your browser cache and cookies then... or maybe may nainstall jan somewhere sa windows directory mo, most of the time... virii, trojan horses and spyware ang may style na ganyan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sonborj Posted October 17, 2003 Report Share Posted October 17, 2003 @sweetyls if youre using IE6, i think its default settings are still on high security. Some cookies are not allowed. when you enter the google.com address what happens? as in no page is downloaded? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sweetyls Posted October 17, 2003 Report Share Posted October 17, 2003 @runabout i already flushed my cookies and history and temp files etc., pero wala pa rin. @sonborj i get redirected to a page saying "There is no website configured at this address". The page is maintained by cPanel. feeling ko kung sa SAP "when all things fail, do a Hard Reset!" ako ngayon, "when all things fail, SYSTEM RESTORE!" haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest spv_dman Posted October 17, 2003 Report Share Posted October 17, 2003 Try to check the windows "hosts" file under: C:WINNTsystem32driversetc Baka naglagay ng DNS entries for yahoo, etc. Alisin mo lahat ng entries pertaining to the search engines you can't access. ***Edit* I forgot to mention. The path above pertains to WINNT, WIN2K and WINXP OS. For WIN95 and 98, if I'm not mistaken, the path is: C:Windowssystem32driversetc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest grifter Posted October 17, 2003 Report Share Posted October 17, 2003 @sweetyls, what's your operating system? what's your internet connection? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest grifter Posted October 17, 2003 Report Share Posted October 17, 2003 ***Edit* I forgot to mention. The path above pertains to WINNT, WIN2K and WINXP OS. For WIN95 and 98, if I'm not mistaken, the path is: C:Windowssystem32driversetc For win9x, the hosts file is located in %systemdrive%%windir% (usually this is C:WINDOWS) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest runab0ut Posted October 17, 2003 Report Share Posted October 17, 2003 hmmm... the last thing that you could do is do a reformat.... a pain. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sweetyls Posted October 17, 2003 Report Share Posted October 17, 2003 @grifter i'm using XP, with DSL connection. @spv_dman ito lang nakalagay sa hosts file --> 127.0.0.1 localhost i think it's for yahoopops. yun lang. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest aldousbee Posted October 18, 2003 Report Share Posted October 18, 2003 127.0.0.1 localhost is the default entry how about personal firewalls? Zonealarm, norton? have you checked it? did you try pinging google or other search engines? if you can ping them its probable na ang browser mo ang me problema Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sweetyls Posted October 18, 2003 Report Share Posted October 18, 2003 pinging? hehe. what's that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest aldousbee Posted October 19, 2003 Report Share Posted October 19, 2003 go to the command prompt. (that's STart>Programs> Accesories>Command Prompt) then type: ping www.google.com then wait.... you should see a bunch of numbers... if you see numbers then it means that you can reach google, and that the problem is within your browser. If you see that there is a "request timed out" or some other message then it is probable that your browser is not screwed and that the problem is somewhere else. try changing www.google.com with other sites BTW... you have a new avatar ... heh heh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sweetyls Posted October 19, 2003 Report Share Posted October 19, 2003 yup, new avatar. para naman mejo artsy just like yours haha. i was able to reach google, which means the problem is within my browser? should i reinstall my IE? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest spv_dman Posted October 19, 2003 Report Share Posted October 19, 2003 @sweetyls Try to go to this link: http://66.218.71.86 It's the IP translation of www.yahoo.com. If you're able to connect to it, info.com must have installed a plugin into your browser that redirects you to their site instead of the "real" IP translation of yahoo and the other search engines. If that's the case, you're right, you need to reinstall IE. I hope this helps :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest aldousbee Posted October 19, 2003 Report Share Posted October 19, 2003 Can IE be re-installed in XP? maybe you can update it by going to the Microsoft website. Do you have the Service Pack installed? Pag ayaw pa rin... You can reinstall XP (or your OS) from scratch.... or just install another browser.. Try Mozilla Firebird (I use it, a lot more stable than IE) www.mozilla.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sweetyls Posted October 19, 2003 Report Share Posted October 19, 2003 @spv_dman was able to get to yahoo thru that IP translation you said. i already uninstalled IE, but avant (the browser i'm using still won't connect to google. umm... should avant be working at all? since i already uninstalled IE? anyway, @aldousbee i'm downloading mozilla na. try ko if it'll fix the problem. thanks you guys.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest aldousbee Posted October 19, 2003 Report Share Posted October 19, 2003 AFAIK Avant is dependent on IE...parang extension lang kasi ng IE yan kaya it would not work if you don't have IE or if IE is not functioning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest grifter Posted October 20, 2003 Report Share Posted October 20, 2003 @sweetyls, check if you have any proxy server entries in IE. go to tools, internet options, lan settings to check. if here is a proxy server entry, disable (uncheck) it first and try to browse www.google.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sweetyls Posted October 21, 2003 Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 @aldousbee tried using mozilla. still won't work. still get redirected to that cPanel page. btw, were you the one who added me to friendster? :) @grifter the proxy server's already disabled e. can this have anything to do with the registry? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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