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 15:52:48 -0400
From: "kellygreer1" <kellygreer1@yahoo.com>
| Well the HostsMan program seemed to do something on the install that I
| thought fixed it.
|
| But now after doing Windows XP SP2 and the latest updates its gone back
| to ignoring my HOSTS file. The registry key looks ok. I'll have to
| rewrite it and see if that helps...... it's weird though. If it was
| the reg key wouldn't all programs be affected? Not just IE? Ping and
| Firefox still using the HOSTS file. Weird.
|
| How does an individual program decide to ignore the HOSTS file?
|
| When I do solve this I will post back to the group the best way to
| protect yourself from this. Not sure if I will find the fix before
| Spybot or Lavasoft discover this malware.
|
| Does anyone know of a free proxy server I could run locally(?), then I
| could tell IE to use the proxy and through the proxy block
| www.winfixer.com, abetterinternet.com, vx2.com, etc...?
|
| Thanks,
| Kelly
If you are infected with some malware they change the DataBase location and thus the hots
file assumed by the OS be be used from the alternate location. The following tool will
correct any alterations and the utility provides AV scanners from; Trend Sophos and Mcafee
to clean any infector that may make said alteration.
Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
http://www.ik-cs.com/programs/virtools/Multi_AV.exe
It is a self-extracting ZIP file that contains the Kixtart Script Interpreter {
http://kixtart.org Kixtart is CareWare } three batch files, five Kixtart scripts, one Link
(.LNK) file, this PDF instruction file and two utilities; UNZIP.EXE and WGET.EXE. It will
simplify the process of using; Sophos, Trend and McAfee Anti Virus Command Line Scanners to
remove
viruses and various other malware.
C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS}
This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed in Normal Mode. This
way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor’s web site.
The choices are; Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Exit the menu and Reboot the PC.
You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed files or you can
download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have downloaded the files
needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into Safe Mode [F8 key
during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you want to run in Safe
Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal Mode.
When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more comprehensive PDF help
file.
To use this utility, perform the following...
Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS }
Choose; Unzip
Choose; Close
Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT
{ or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS }
NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE and/or FTP.EXE to go
through your FireWall to allow them to download the needed AV vendor related files.
* * * Please report back your results * * *
-- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
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