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Lost my Search Engines ??

  • 16-04-2008 7:49am
    #1
    hamsterboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,536 ✭✭✭


    Hi All
    My work computer is not allowing me access to any search engine sites...e.g. Google, Yahoo, Ask etc. Even the Google search within Firefox wont work.
    I can get to the Wikipedia homepage :)
    This is really odd.......any ideas....urgent!!
    Mods, move the thread at your discretion

    HB


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  • #2
    mrfreddred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 44 ✭mrfreddred


    Your not on your own....I have noticed that I am getting a "The requested URL could not be retrieved" error in Google after page1 ....never seen this before......I am using OpenDNS for DNS resolution instead of the Eircom DNS server......Not sure if that makes any difference...


  • #3
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    If you go to Google by IP?


  • #4
    Smiley012
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 304 ✭✭Smiley012


    odd... I can access search engines fine,

    could it be a change that has been made to your hosts file? I'm not a huge techy so maybe someone can fix me on this - but some viruses can get in and change something in a file, and it keeps redirecting you to dodgey websites?

    have you done a virus scan?


  • #5
    mrfreddred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 44 ✭mrfreddred


    Must be a DNS issue...


  • #6
    hamsterboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,536 ✭✭✭hamsterboy


    Going to Google by IP won't work either.
    It's not just confined to Firefox....IE7 is giving the same prob.
    I have noticed that my Symantec Anti Virus will not allow me to scan for viruses, says
    "Could not start scan. Scan engine returned error 0x2."

    I'd bring it up with support in here but they are worse than useless and as pleasant to deal with as the Taleban.


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  • #7
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    hamsterboy wrote: »
    Going to Google by IP won't work either.
    It's not just confined to Firefox....IE7 is giving the same prob.
    I have noticed that my Symantec Anti Virus will not allow me to scan for viruses, says
    "Could not start scan. Scan engine returned error 0x2."

    I'd bring it up with support in here but they are worse than useless and as pleasant to deal with as the Taleban.
    As its an internal system, thats still your best bet though. The problem could be with your machine, their proxies, DNS somewhere along the line... You don't know unless you ask.


  • #8
    hamsterboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,536 ✭✭✭hamsterboy


    *manically deletes or hides "non work related" programs and files :):)


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