Re: google trouble

From: David (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/11/03 

Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 19:31:11 -0800

I have been getting the same message, and I was leery
about following it. It happens when you open Explorer
with Google as your homepage. Furthermore, in the past 24
hours, my home page now resets itself to Find4u, which I
have NEVER used or heard of.
My Norton Anti-Virus isn't finding the problem. What can
I do?

>-----Original Message-----
>svchost.exe is a program that XP runs so that certain
network components can
>run. Me personally i wouldn't delete all those drivers.
Sounds like doing
>that will really shut u down. What is telling u to edit
the registry? Is it
>a pop-up or some kind of program that u r running?
>
>"Sandee" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
>news:058001c3bf8d$30ed5520$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>> what is svchost.exe.. I've been trying to get onto
>> google it tells me that hosts file has been hacked. It
>> instructs me to go intothe regedit and remove the
svchost
>> file and then go into c:\windows\system32\drivers and
>> delete everytrhing except the following line 127.0.0.1
>> What do I do
>
>
>.
>

Relevant Pages

  • Geek love for Google might be changing
    ... Geek love for Google might be changing, now that they are becoming more ... like MicroSoft. ... I think more and more people are starting to actually become leery of ...
    (alt.internet.search-engines)
  • Re: More Google love ....
    ... like MicroSoft. ... I think more and more people are starting to actually become leery of ... ZDNET has an article again slamming ... Google even with a fake Google logo all dripping and waning. ...
    (alt.internet.search-engines)
  • Re: JerryK and her pin fixation problems/the unending argument
    ... quite easily able to recognize and read with no problem whatsoever on google. ... it also doesn't have the download and edit function. ... Shit, if that's so important to you, simply copy what you want, edit ...
    (rec.skydiving)
  • Re: Changing File Date
    ... And that will also edit the date that Windows Explorer shows, ... file metadata, and won't change even if you edit the picture, because it is really the time the picture was shot. ... I have not actually done it since the DOS days but here was a quick one returned from google. ... Back in the day norton utilities would do this too if my memory isn't tricking me. ...
    (rec.photo.digital)
  • Re: 1000 miles: Britains End to End
    ... EDIT: Quick google and it look like the record is nearer 40 hours now ...
    (rec.sport.unicycling)
Quantcast