Ronniebootwest Posted January 3, 2006 Report Share Posted January 3, 2006 Just recently I have started to get the following message whenever I try to carry out a search on the internet."We are seeing an increased volume of traffic by some malware software. In order to protect our customers from damage from that malware, we are blocking your query. A few legitimate queries may get flagged, and for that we apologize. Please be assured that we are hard at work on this problem and hope to get it resolved even better as soon as possible."Has anyone else seen this message? I can't seem to get rid of it at all!Ron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Cox Posted January 3, 2006 Report Share Posted January 3, 2006 Ronsend me the url your trying - i will try over here and email the resultskenbtwi have been using google and yahoo engines with no problemit could be your isp -- have you asked the what the heck is going on??and have read nothing on my various newsgroups Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronniebootwest Posted January 3, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2006 Ken, I am not using an URL, just searching with phases like 'Welsh Flag' 'Flag of Wales' 'Skeeter Davis' 'Johnny Loughrey' and that kind of thing.I am searching with MSN at the moment.See what you get when you use Google or whatever and let me know.Ron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Cox Posted January 3, 2006 Report Share Posted January 3, 2006 using yahoo no problemwelsh flag - http://www.data-wales.co.uk/flag.htmskeeterhttp://ronstadt-linda.com/skeeterdavis/http://www.irishcountrymusic.com/johnnyloughrey.htmmsnhttp://www.irishcountrymusic.com/johnnyloughrey.htmhttp://www.ultimateflags.com/int/wales.html'Skeeter Davis'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeeter_Davisno problem here in the colonies:)ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maureen Posted January 3, 2006 Report Share Posted January 3, 2006 No problem in England either RonI used Ask Jeeves (www.ask.co.uk) Welsh Flag ..... http://www.darachweb.com/flags/Wales.htmlSkeeter Davis - http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&s...tuadqjmbojh6~T0Love Maureen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hemjr Posted January 3, 2006 Report Share Posted January 3, 2006 Just recently I have started to get the following message whenever I try to carry out a search on the internet."We are seeing an increased volume of traffic by some malware software. In order to protect our customers from damage from that malware, we are blocking your query. A few legitimate queries may get flagged, and for that we apologize. Please be assured that we are hard at work on this problem and hope to get it resolved even better as soon as possible."Has anyone else seen this message? I can't seem to get rid of it at all!RonRon, I tried from south Carolina using Google and had no problems.Howard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LumenLux Posted January 7, 2006 Report Share Posted January 7, 2006 Ron, did you come up with an answer? I was wondering if the message itself was some kind of intruder code. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronniebootwest Posted January 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2006 I have had a great deal of help with this problem and I appreciate it very much. The answer seems to be a 'back door' infection has somehow gotton on to my computer. I did not have sufficient 'spyware' protection to prevent this it seems. However, with the help of Brian Cornflow, Ken Cox, and Ralph McDermot I have now added the necessary protection to my PC. (1) I installed a program called 'RegSupremePro' so that I can keep tabs on my registry(2) I installed Microsoft 'AntiSpyware' to stop any further infections.(3) I installed 'Spybot - Search & Destroy' to enabe me to find and delete any infections.I also discovered that using MSN as my homepage search engine was not a good idea because it seem to be prone to picking up these malware infections, usually by downloading a jpeg image from the web. To remedy this shortcoming, I have now changed my search engine to 'GOOGLE'I understand that a new 'security patch' will be issued by Microsoft on the 10th January 2006 that will further reduce the risk of this kind of thing happening again.Ron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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