It's a file without an extension From: Bob Hartung [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 10:04 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: PC that can't Google
I've searched the C drive for any hosts file and couldn't find one. ---------------------- Bob Hartung Dir of I.T. Wisco Industries, Inc. 736 Janesville St. Oregon, WI 53575 Tel: (608) 835-3106 x215 Fax: (608) 835-7399 e-mail: bhartung(at)wiscoind.com ________________________________ From: David Lum [mailto:[email protected]]<mailto:[mailto:[email protected]]> To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:[email protected]]<mailto:[mailto:[email protected]]> Sent: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:57:32 -0600 Subject: RE: PC that can't Google HOSTS file? From: Bob Hartung [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 6:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: PC that can't Google One of our VPs brought in his company-supplied home PC (Dell Optiplex WinXP Pro SP3). Said it was slow and something had changed his home page and he couldn't change it back. He also said he couldn't access Google. His home page had been taken over by My Web Search. I checked the Vipre quarantine and parts of My Web Search had been removed so I could uninstall it. I ran a Vipre deep scan and installed the latest version of Malwarebytes and ran its deep scan as well. It detected a number of registry My Web Search entries. Everything seemed to be running smoothly and much quicker after the scanning and deleting. My Web Search was gone but the Google problem persists. Using either Firefox or IE, you can access any website with out problem accept Google.com. At the command prompt, you can ping or tracert any website and it will resolve the name to it's IP address, accept Google.com. Google.com just times out with the error that the host name could not be found. I've checked there is no lmhost file. I've also ran ipconfig The PC is attached to our work network and through DHCP has picked up our standard DNS server to use. Everyone else can get to Google.com. What else could be interfering on just the Google.com name? ---------------------- Bob Hartung Dir of I.T. Wisco Industries, Inc. 736 Janesville St. Oregon, WI 53575 Tel: (608) 835-3106 x215 Fax: (608) 835-7399 e-mail: bhartung(at)wiscoind.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
