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To: akpirate who wrote (41408)	5/27/2004 3:30:58 AM
From: shadowman	Respond to of 110652

Longshot, but this might help. businessownersideacafe.com Or this.. mcse.ms

To: akpirate who wrote (41408)	5/27/2004 6:18:49 AM
From: Tony McFadden	Respond to of 110652

what does your hosts file look like? It shouldn't contian much more than what mine does: 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.0.1 AdSubtract # Added by AdSubtract for auto-dial. it is located in c:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc (at least on my XPHome machine)

To: akpirate who wrote (41408)	5/27/2004 11:50:08 AM
From: laylow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

The info in the link shadowman gave you will work. I had to do the exact same thing a while back when I had a Gaobot trojan. It changes the entries in the hosts file as they describe. It does a sorta loop back, so you never can access any of the help sites, like Symantec, McAfee, Microsoft, etc. Luckily when I got the warning I wrote all the info down and went to this file, and opened with notepad as described. I deleted everything but the first entry. After that you will be able to get to the sites and download removal tools and patches.