Odd computer problem.

jeepnut · 10-07-2003, 01:12 AM

Well, for the past couple of days, I have been unable to use most search engines. I cannot open Google at all. When I try to, I get a message saying that "Internet Explorer could not open the search page."

I can access yahoo.com, however, when I try to search, all I get is your standard "page cannot be displayed" page. I have the same problem with msn.com.

Excite seems to work for me, but that's about it.

Askjeeves and Lycos redirect me to these two pages:

http://www.www.askjeeves.com.org/
http://www.your.com/index.php?nf=1

I'm pretty sure that Google and the others are working for others which confuses me. Any idea why I'm having this problem? I would really like to be able to search again.

Ace195 · 10-07-2003, 02:28 AM

Unless your running windows XP I'd say try running IE Repair.. You would go to start , settings, control panel, Add remove programs , then click microsoft internet explorer then select add /rem then go ahead and click repair.. If that doesn't work or running windows xp try running windows update

Dyne · 10-07-2003, 02:34 AM

It sounds like a cookie problem, actually.. but I wouldn't know what to remove. But anything going whacko in IE probably means cookies.

Ace195 · 10-07-2003, 02:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Dyne

It sounds like a cookie problem, actually.. but I wouldn't know what to remove. But anything going whacko in IE probably means cookies.

Could be cookies too but in that case you would want to go to tools and then Internet options then Delete cookies and temp files.. Unless your running IE5 ect then you would have to click show files and delete them manually

jeepnut · 10-07-2003, 09:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ace195

Could be cookies too but in that case you would want to go to tools and then Internet options then Delete cookies and temp files.. Unless your running IE5 ect then you would have to click show files and delete them manually

Well, I deleted my cookies and this time when I went to google, it took me to this page:

http://www.com.net/?mode=w6&mysearch=google

I have Windows XP Professional by the way.

Thanks for the help so far by the way.

Ace195 · 10-07-2003, 03:11 PM

Hmm.. If it's redirecting you to other things. It's probably spy ware or something like that. Try running adaware.