IE and Firefox redirecting every search link

I didnt get any errors when doing what Jacee suggested but it did not dix the problem. I get this error message when doing what Neutron16 suggested:

'Could not find file 'C:\hosts.txt'

I tryed the TDSS killer when it was suggested on another forum before and it did not fix the problem or show any malware.

According to the text files that you attached to one of your earlier posts, it appears that you have the Ask toolbar installed or that you once had it installed. Please uninstall that toolbar if you can... and maybe all other toolbars that you see listed under:
Start > Control Panel > Uninstall a program
or
Start > Control Panel > Programs and Features
depending on your settings.

Also uninstall PeerBlock - you can put it back after you get this issue fixed.

Are there any other computers in the home? If so, do they suffer from this same problem?

adiwalsh said:

I didnt get any errors when doing what Jacee suggested but it did not dix the problem. I get this error message when doing what Neutron16 suggested:

'Could not find file 'C:\hosts.txt' ...

It really does not matter about the HOST file because the steps that Jacee suggested wrote over top of whatever was in that file.

I also see the 'Could not find file 'C:\hosts.txt' error when I run that tool.



Maybe some other people involved in this thread could check to see what they get from the SF Diag Tool and the HOSTS button.

UsernameIssues said:

According to the text files that you attached to one of your earlier posts, it appears that you have the Ask toolbar installed or that you once had it installed. Please uninstall that toolbar if you can... and maybe all other toolbars that you see listed under:
Start > Control Panel > Uninstall a program
or
Start > Control Panel > Programs and Features
depending on your settings.

Also uninstall PeerBlock - you can put it back after you get this issue fixed.

Are there any other computers in the home? If so, do they suffer from this same problem?

I uninstalled ask toolbar and dont have any other toolbars installed and uninstalled peerblock.

There is one other computer in the home and it does not have this problem, I have connected to 3 different wireless networks and a wired ethernet connection and I have the same problem on all of them.

adiwalsh said:

...There is one other computer in the home and it does not have this problem, I have connected to 3 different wireless networks and a wired ethernet connection and I have the same problem on all of them.

Excellent info to have - now off to scratch our collective heads.

Have you had a chance to surf to the IP as this post asked?

Just as a point of curiosity - do you get the '"Could not find file 'C:\hosts.txt' " error when you run that tool as admin?

Yes I get that error when I run the tool as administrator and when i just run normally.

I dont know how to do the IP thing

adiwalsh said:

I dont know how to do the IP thing

I believe the poster was just wanting you to see if you could get to Google's page by typing their ip address, 74.125.224.72, into the address bar of your brouser (instead of typing in google.com).

And I just have to ask, after all these posts, all the time that's passed, and I'm sure some growing frustration: are you sure you ran that flush.bat file as administrator (ie, right click on it and select "Run as Administrator")? I know you ran the other tool as administrator, and that's where you got the error on the hosts file, but I'm specifically referring to the way you may have run flush.bat. It won't work fully otherwise.

I definitely ran as administrator.

My computer is also running really slow on the internet (mainly when watching videos) and I am wondering if its anything to do with this redirecting problem, spybot SnD has not found anything. This is really getting annoying, I got this computer at christmas I dont have alot of disk space used and really dont know what the problem is. Thanks everyone for the help so far