Re: help! Internet Explorer ignoring my HOSTS file
From: David H. Lipman (DLipman~nospam~_at_Verizon.Net)
Date: 07/26/05
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 09:37:14 -0400
From: "kellygreer1" <kellygreer1@yahoo.com>
| Hi groups!
|
| 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.
|
| So I guess my question is.....
| Is this some horrible form of "protection" from one of the Spyware /
| Adware products..... OR is this Adware/Spyware/Virus program itself
| making Internet Explorer ignore my HOSTS file.
|
| Thanks,
| Kelly Greer
| kellygreer1@nospam.com
| change nospam to yahoo
Kelly:
Some malware will redirect the location of the TCP/IP statics tables.
The following is the Registry key and proper setting.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters
DataBasePath=%SystemRoot%\System32\drivers\etc
-- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
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