Problems with search engines

Anhaga · Post by **Anhaga** » 2004-04-28 11:42am

I installed the google toolbar a few months ago. Shortly after I did this, I was unable to access google or any search engine besides MSN. This problem still persists. I can get on to Yahoo but if I try to search it just says that the page cannot be found.
If I type in www.google.com, I get a message saying that "There is no website configured at this address".
Any ideas?

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-04-28 11:50am

try running any anti-spyware proggies? or re-installing the google toolbar?

Anhaga · Post by **Anhaga** » 2004-04-28 12:03pm

Well I reinstalled the google toolbar a few times before giving up. I'm using the MSN toolbar currently since its the only one which gives me a working search engine.

As for anti-spyware programmes, I run ad-aware about once a week.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-04-28 12:07pm

Anhaga wrote:Well I reinstalled the google toolbar a few times before giving up. I'm using the MSN toolbar currently since its the only one which gives me a working search engine.

As for anti-spyware programmes, I run ad-aware about once a week.

there's some bugs that ad-aware can't pick up, so it's a good idea to have more than one utility, such as cwshredder or spybot. which browser are you using also? it may be compatability issues.

Anhaga · Post by **Anhaga** » 2004-04-28 12:13pm

Internet Explorer.

Around the same time I installed the google taskbar I also installed K-meleon. I later uninstalled that as a friend of mine said that it might be causing some compatability problems.

However that didn't change anything.

I'll try installing spybot. Thanks for the advice.

Mayabird · Post by **Mayabird** » 2004-04-28 08:13pm

Have you done any virus scans recently? I had this problem earlier in the year, and found out I'd gotten one. For some reason, all it does it keep people from getting on Google.

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2004-04-28 08:20pm

If you still wan't the google tool bar, you could use firefox. They have one for it. (it's third party, i use it and it's prett nice actually). Also, ditto on the virus scanning etc...

Post by **Dalton** » 2004-04-29 01:43am

Sounds like K-meleon installed a hijacker. Mosey along to G&C.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2004-04-29 02:14am

Dalton wrote:Sounds like K-meleon installed a hijacker. Mosey along to G&C.

How the fuck could K-Meleon install a hijacker? It's fucking built on Mozilla, for fuck's sake. The only thing it has in common with IE is a user interface.

IE is more than likely the culprit. Mosey on over to G&C anyway.

Daltonator · Post by **Daltonator** » 2004-04-29 05:36am

Crayz9000 wrote:How the fuck could K-Meleon install a hijacker? It's fucking built on Mozilla, for fuck's sake. The only thing it has in common with IE is a user interface.

IE is more than likely the culprit. Mosey on over to G&C anyway.

Because I read K-meleon, thought Kazaa and assumed it was a Gnutella client

My bad. Settle down, sparky.

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2004-04-30 03:40am

If all else fails you should uninstall the google toolbar and search google the old fashioned way.