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QHosts Virus Information

Unfortunately, your computer has most likely become infected with a virus that attempts to hijack your web browser and point you to a malicious site. At this point, that site has been removed, and a placeholder page is now in it's place. The site is on a computer that runs our web hosting software but the computer and the site are not ours. We don't have access to the computer that the place holder is on so we're unable to update it.

The best thing to do is to look at the following pages on how to clean the infection from your computer:

• http://www.microsoft.com/security/security_bulletins/ms03-040.asp
• http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100719.htm
• http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.qhosts.html
• http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=TROJ_QHOSTS.A
• http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojqhosts1.html



If you're not comfortable with the instructions you find, we recommend contacting a local computer professional. We're sorry that you've had this problem. We work hard to promote proper security practices on the internet but there are many forces that work against us as well. We hope that you can get the virus cleaned as we know how frustrating they can be. Remember that virus prevention software and regular operating system updates can help avoid virus infections like this one.

Please check these above listed before calling our offices as our attendants cannot provide any more information than is provided above. Thank you for your patience in this matter.

This notice last updated 18 September 2006.