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Old January 25th, 2004, 12:41 AM
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IE redirects bad URLs to search-about.net
I'm an advanced computer user who can almost always spot bad programs, files, notices, etc. on my computer. However, I've noticed that lately my browser (Internet Explorer 6.0 on a Windows XP Pro machine) is redirecting all failed URL entries to the search-about.net website. It won't even let me enter my local intranet address (localhost) w/out typing in the http:// part. I've searched high and low and can't find what's causing this. I've run Ad-Aware 6 a few times, and while it always finds some minor spyware stuff, it never gets rid of this problem. My next step is to remove IE and reinstall it, but before I do that...I'm curious if there's a place in the registry that I can look for that might remove this redirection, as I know nothing about the layout of the registry. Thanks!
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mcafee has a good free online service for locating virus/trojan apps on your PC ... you might want to give it a run before messing around in the registry (which probably wouldn't help you anyhow...).
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You also might want to see what you get back on your DNS lookups. Try opening a command prompt window and pinging a few known sites. Then ping one that does not exist. See if you get a failure, or if your DNS server is returning the same IP for all non-existant sites.
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Thanks for your replys.

This is the url that comes up when I enter a bad URL:

res://mshp.dll/http_404.htm

I deleted the mshp.dll file in my Windows folder, but it still does this.

I tried the McAfee thing and it found no viruses.
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Thanks. According to that program, I had the CWS Affiliate: Winshow installed. Running the program appears to have resolved the problem. Thanks!!!
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i had something simular
i had a virus
symantec web site can help, check to see if you have any new folders in your c drive called shareddocs and check ur startup folder for unusal stuff that u know shouldnt be there
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For those who have tried to download the program, you've found that this website no longer exists. Well I'm happy to announce that I found I still had the program on my computer. So I've uploaded it to my webserver. Feel free to download it:

http://www.twcclassics.com/aboutnet/CWShredder.exe
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For those who have tried to download the program, you've found that this website no longer exists. Well I'm happy to announce that I found I still had the program on my computer. So I've uploaded it to my webserver. Feel free to download it:

http://www.twcclassics.com/aboutnet/CWShredder.exe

To save on bandwidth/server space on my paid server, I've moved this file to my Geocities site.

http://www.geocities.com/twcmusicguy/searchabout.zip (I had to zip it, otherwise Geocities wouldn't let me upload it)
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This thread is pretty old, but I've moved it anyway.

And do you realise that you can download the file from its official site?

http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html
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