Kodewerx

I don't know why, but for some reason my computer won't display google, (i did recently get rid of a virus) and I went for sometime thinking this was a problem with google. but after a while I forgot, went to school and remembered after getting on googles seacrh site. Now i can get on video.google.com, and images.google.com, etc. but not anything that starts with google (ex: google.com/firefox) My brother told me to clean my cache, and i did so several times, IE7 and FF2. does anyone know whats wrong or know where xp media center stores the cache?

Check the file C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\Hosts for any possible highjack attempts. Also download Spybot S&D, and use the "immunization" feature: http://www.safer-networking.org/en/mirrors/index.html

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I have to return some video tapes.

Feed me a stray cat.

will spybot have any conflicts with any other current virus/spyware programs? My brother told me 2 of the different programs that offered the same protection would screw each other up and I already had AVG antivirus and antispayware from Grisoft installed. Oh well, might as well try anyway, yahoo sucks and i dont wanna use it no mores

yep, im definately getting it, it lists a lot of sites ive bever been to ex: ewido.net
http://www.greyknight17.com
greyknight17.com
help.lockergnome.com
http://www.lavasoftsupport.com
cleanup.stevengould.org
stevengould.org
http://www.tomcoyote.org
tomcoyote.org
http://www.depannetonpc.net
http://www.wilderssecurity.com
download.bleepingcomputer.com
superantispyware.com
google.ca
google.com(i can trust, but not sure about google.ca)

and i dont feel like getting the rest..thats about half. any idea who all these sites are? spybot s&d is starting to sound really good right now

If that's a list of sites in your hosts file, delete them. The hosts file shouldn't contain any configuration unless you're REALLY into crappy Windows networking.

And no, it should not conflict with other anti-spyware apps, but it might. In any case, SpyBot is my favorite, in any case.

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I have to return some video tapes.

Feed me a stray cat.

Well, I'll probably just get rid of avg then, it slows my startup a little bit anyway. About the networking...I'm on a notebook pc so I look for open connections when I take it to friends houses, but I've only been connected to 3 routers I dont actually know, but I still dont think it should have given me that many areas in the file. Ok, I'm in C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc
I have 5 different files in here. Hosts, Networks, Services, Protocol, and and lmhosts. lmhosts is the only SAM file, and everything else is a normal file. Is this where I need to be?

Yes. Delete all lines in the hosts file except for the line:

localhost 127.0.0.1

Save it, then restart your computer. You should be able to get to google after that.

awesome, thanks for all the help guys, i ran s&d, it it did waaaay better than avg, avg almost never found anything, and it didnt find anything after the google problem. s&d found 40 problems, and scanned the whole computer in minutes.(avg took several, long, annoying, unneccessary hours..lol) i now have google up and im never getting rid of s&d! lol i feel like im asking to many questions and not helping out enough...i think ill go find some problems and help people

Be sure to update Spybot and always keep the immunization up-to-date, as well.

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I have to return some video tapes.

Feed me a stray cat.

yea, now if only there was an 'immunization' for life..ugh..2 days ina row..i hate bein sick