Not able to open search engine

i am using ie6 ,all the web pages are opening except search engines (any search engine, ie-- google etc..

 

Hello haneefjkt and welcome to the Board,

The first check to do is to see if your HOSTS files has an entry that is blocking search engines:

The Hosts file is located in: C:WINDOWS/System32/Drivers/etc/HOSTS

Hosts opens with Notepad.

The standard default Hosts looks like this:

# Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host

127.0.0.1 localhost

Regards - Charles

 

thakns chrlesvar,,,
i have entry in host file for my local domino server(email server).i have it in all the pc's .this entry will not block the site......

 

Go into IE6's Tools > Manage Add-ons.

Either disable them all and see if the problem is solved and add back in one by one, or disable one by one.

One possibilty is you have malware - this is one half of a classic redirect symptom: your anti virus or another security program took care of the redirect portion but left the blocking.

Regards - Charles