Virus gives Page Not Found in IE

Rune75

Rune75

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Hey guys... I work for a mom and pop puter store as a tech and Im having some serious virus/trogen problems as of late. I can dial out and connect to various ISPs but I get Page Not Found when going to websites in IE or other browsers and no net connection for any other program. Ive detached the harddrives and virus / spyware scanned the drives via a USB external case. Some of these drives Ive found lots of problems that get fixxed but I still cant find a cause or fix for the problem. Ive also used VX2Finder.exe and CWShredder.exe but to no avail.

Sorry if this was already discussed in a previous thread but I cant find any relavent data in here or google.

Thanx in advance
 
Has your hosts file been changed in any way?

I think it's in $WINDOWS_ROOT/System32/hosts
 
I will deffinately check that out when I get to werk in the morning... I have a win98 and winXP puter on my bench for this very problem (of course they could be seperate probs) but I really appreciate the pointer =) I'll post from werk if I notice / fix it with appending the HOSTS file
 
also you can flush the tcpip dns cache
load a command box and type "ipconfig /flushdns" (no quotes)

good luck

OldMX
 
search google for something called winsockxpfix. very good utility that resets and reinstalls winsock. I also work at a mom and pop computer store and i use that all the time. I have a very useful tools cd if you want a copy of that.
 
BillLeeLee said:
Has your hosts file been changed in any way?

I think it's in $WINDOWS_ROOT/System32/hosts
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I had the same thing happen on a system i was working on last week and the host file was modified causing the same type of problem.

the location of it is:

$WINDOWS_ROOT\System32\drivers\etc

assuming you are working on a 2000/XP box.
 
in... ie... you're having problems.

fix them.

*rereads post*
oops other browsers too. try traceroute to another site, like google.com, something you know is up. is your router borken?
 
unhappy_mage said:
in... ie... you're having problems.

fix them.

*rereads post*
oops other browsers too. try traceroute to another site, like google.com, something you know is up. is your router borken?
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Even if it's isn't other browsers, changing browsers isn't always possible, so answering the problem with another browser isn't a good answer. Granted IE has issues, but simply shifting browsers is akin to hiding your head in the sand. Somehow I have managed to run IE for eons and don't get virii and spyware.

Anyways, posting a link to another browser like that usually ends up in IE vs. XZY browser argument, which generally isn't what the thread posted wants or needs...
 
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