Google and Yahoo Don't Load

[PanchoC]

I have 2 computers on the same network, and on one computer, neither Google or Yahoo will load. All other pages that I access load fine. It's strange because on one computer, they both load.

I do not have any software installed that blocks web pages.

Any ideas?

[james8547]

run spybot

[Mr N8]

Look at C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc

Open the hosts file with wordpad. If you have entries for any search engines, remove them. Also run Spybot, as it will remove the source that put those entries there.

[glc]

If it's a XP box, open a command prompt and type ipconfig /flushdns

[Trent Steel]

Originally posted by glc
If it's a XP box, open a command prompt and type ipconfig /flushdns

What does that command do?

[james8547]

Originally posted by Trent Steel
What does that command do?
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/proddocs/standard/sag_DNS_tro_UsingIpconfigFlushdns.asp

[Trent Steel]

Thanks james8547, I had an idea what it did but not exactly, cleared it up for me.

[healtheworld]

Its a QHOSTS trojan..Check om symantec site..

[el_novato]

Hello Folks,

I'm having the same problem, except I get re-directed to internet-optimizer.com. I ran the flush command and it told me it was successful. THen I purposefully tried to load a wrong page, and it still went to the optimizer page.

I displayed the client resolver cache and it has 1 entry and four sub-entries under that one. Why won't it work with my laptop?

Im running WinXp Pro. IE 6

Thanks!!

[glc]

el: Delete the hosts file and run Spybot or Ad-Aware.

[el_novato]

Thanks glc!!

Worked like a charm!!