Re: help! Internet Explorer ignoring my HOSTS file
From: data64 (me_at_privacy.net)
Date: 07/25/05
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Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 16:31:33 -0400
"kellygreer1" <kellygreer1@yahoo.com> wrote in news:1122316011.376234.258100
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> Anyone seen this before I got hit with some pretty nasty Spyware. Ran
> Spybot S&D, Lavasoft Ad-aware, Hijack This, and the Microsoft
> AntiSpyware Beta. Then as I continued to try to clean things up I
> noticed Internet Explorer was ignoring my HOSTS file. I have lost the
> ability to keep Internet Explorer from getting to certain sites by
> using the HOSTS file. For example I noticed www.winfixer.com and
> www.abetterinternet.com, I tried to redirect those to 127.0.0.1 and the
> popups were still able to get to those sites. Ping from the command
> line and Mozilla Firefox seem to be using my HOSTS file. Weird.
>
Sounds more like a caching issue. IE or some windows component seems to be
holding on to an older value of the DNS lookup rather using the new value
from your HOSTS file.
Assuming that you are on Windows 2k or better, try doing
"ipconfig /flushdns"
or simpler yet would be to reboot.
data64
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