Dogpile search engine...Spyware???

I can't get a search to pop up using dogpile. Is my anti spyware programs preventing it from loading if it is considered spyware. I hear that their toolbar is,but what about the actual search? Can anyone check right now to see it it works for them? Thanks

 

It's working for me. Never had a problem with it.





snowbound

 

Hmm. I have something blocking it...

 

If you get a message such as 'connection refused', it'll be in your hosts file, open your hosts file with notepad, press Ctrl + F, enter dogpile in the search dialog bock and select find/find next, and either delete the entries or add a pound sign before 127.0.0.1 (example #127.0.0.1 dogpile.com) and resave your hosts. If you have your hosts file set to read only, you will have to change/update that before you can resave it, once saved change it back.

HTH,

Steve

 

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Internet Explorer
re's what I get..

 

Did you check your Hosts file?

If you use HpGuru's Hosts, it's listed.

Steve

 

Yes. I changed the hosts by puttting a #,saved it and it still doesn't work.
Think I may just stick with Google.

 

There are more than a few entries, make sure you select find next, until you have found them all. You can ignore the dogpiler & dogpile 112.207.net entry, but I had a quick glance and there are a few entries that will prevent access.

Screen shot included.

BTW - In my opinion Google is a much better search engine, anyway.

Steve

 

I found the problem. That search uses clickit.go2net and when i changed it it worked fine. I think google is better also.Do I just remove the # and save it to stop it from loading like before?

 

Yes, that's correct.

 

Now,it won't stop working. I took away the # and saved the file and it still works

 

You have to undo all the disabling you've done (ie using #) make sure your Hosts properties aren't set to read only, or it won't save the changes, also make sure you aren't saving it as a text file (ie. hosts.txt).

HTH,

Steve

 

I only changed the clickit.go2net and i fixed that and the files aren't read only.Still works.Hmm,can't believe I'm complaining about something that works.

 

One other thought, clear the cache in IE, as it maybe displaying the page from the cache, you could pull up dogpile in IE and try and do a search ... if it's just displaying it from the cache, it won't connect to give you a search result.

Also to double check you haven't missed something, just overwrite your hosts file by re-extracting it from HpGuru's zip, and all will be as it was. (do this only if you are just using HpGuru's hosts, and you haven't combine added other hosts files to it.)

Steve

 

Often you will have to close IE or FireFox and then reopen it in order for it to be blocked again.

Cheers

 

Cleared the cache and everything is fine now. Thanks for the help>it's appreciated!!

 

My pleasure Gigabyte.

Regards,

Steve