10-29-2011, 01:29 AM
My wife has a Windows 7 laptop and was complaining that she couldn't do Google searches. I had a look and was mystified. Every Google search returned a 500 Internal Server Error screen. I immediately suspected malware, so I tried various combinations of browsers and search engines. IE didn't allow Google to be accessed at all. Firefox would load Google, but any search resulted in a 500 error. Yahoo and MSN searches were also denied. Metacrawler and Dogpile were allowed, but screw them just because.
She could access any website by manually typing the address into the address bar.
I ran and re-ran MSE, Malwarebytes, Spybot, and a few online security scans. Everything came up clean. I checked other things like her hosts file, and did a /flushdns. I ran some searches on my own computer, but nothing worked.
Right now I am reformatting her computer. Has anyone else seen something like this?
She could access any website by manually typing the address into the address bar.
I ran and re-ran MSE, Malwarebytes, Spybot, and a few online security scans. Everything came up clean. I checked other things like her hosts file, and did a /flushdns. I ran some searches on my own computer, but nothing worked.
Right now I am reformatting her computer. Has anyone else seen something like this?