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20th Sep 2009, 02:34
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Hello,
Yesterday I opened my browser, having google as a homepage - and got the "unable to establish connection" thing, I thought it's temporary so I tried searching on yahoo, I managed to log on yahoo, but as I typed a search query and clicked "search", the results page was the same "unable to connect", when I tried bing next - the website didn't even load, just like google - "unable to connect", same is with ask.com - I tried different googles, e.g. co.uk, and nothing, I tried SE's from other countries - and the search of the web doesn't work anywhere I tried - both in IE 7 and FF 3.5... And till this point no change - however, everything seems to be working fine if I use a proxy... Has anybody ever seen anything like this - could it be a result of malware or some damaged file somewhere or something like that? Thanks in advance for any bit of info! |
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20th Sep 2009, 03:53
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Look in *drive*:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\ for a file called hosts. You may have to turn on "show hidden files and folders" in Folder Options. Look in there and see if it contains any lines besides 127.0.0.1 localhost. If so, you can delete them.
Malware often pulls this trick for self-protection. Either way, you want to post this in the Virus & Spyware section and post a log based on the stickies in that section because this isn't normal behavior (obviously).
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20th Sep 2009, 05:37
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Thanks a bunch! I checked there, fixed it, problem solved. I did have a virus found either within or impersonating my csrss.exe process just before that, my antivirus dealt with that, but I assume that was what caused it - seems clean now. Thanks again!
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