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can't go to a website!!!
Hi all,
I have a windows xp sp2 machine, one day, I try to go to a hot deal website to buy a computer product, when I click on the link, which go to http://click.linksynergy.com , but the webpage doesn't work (page cannot display), however, I used my laptop and other computers, the webpage works. So I did further troubleshooting, I went to command prompt, I type ping click.linksynergy.com something is really weird, it returns 127.0.0.1 , I checked my "host" & "lmhost.sam" files, they don't have any click.linksynergy.com mapping, I'm confused about this, what else could be the problem? |
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can't go to a website!!!
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:36:22 -0500, "Britney" *email_address_deleted* wrote:
Hi all, I have a windows xp sp2 machine, one day, I try to go to a hot deal website to buy a computer product, when I click on the link, which go to http://click.linksynergy.com , but the webpage doesn't work (page cannot display), however, I used my laptop and other computers, the webpage works. So I did further troubleshooting, I went to command prompt, I type ping click.linksynergy.com something is really weird, it returns 127.0.0.1 , I checked my "host" & "lmhost.sam" files, they don't have any click.linksynergy.com mapping, I'm confused about this, what else could be the problem? Britney, Examine "hosts" carefully, using Notepad. Scroll to the end of the file, by hitting Ctrl-End, then back up to the top, page by page, before deciding that it is empty. Look out for blank lines at the beginning and end of the file, after localhost, placed there by an exploit. Next, check for a registry hijack. Use Regedit, and look at the contents of [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Tcpip\Parameters\DataBasePath]. That would normally contain "%SystemRoot%\System32\drivers\etc", but is being hijacked by various malware to use a hosts file placed elsewhere. Now check for, and learn to defend against, additional problems - adware, crapware, spyware. Start by downloading each of the following additional free tools: AdAware http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ HijackThis http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=3155 LSP-Fix http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm WinsockXPFix http://www.spychecker.com/program/winsockxpfix.html Spybot S&D http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=download Stinger http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=stinger Create a separate folder for HijackThis, such as C:\HijackThis - copy the downloaded file there. AdAware and Spybot S&D have install routines - run them. The other downloaded programs can be copied into, and run from, any convenient folder. First, run Stinger. Have it remove any problems found. Next, run AdAware. First update it, configure for full scan (http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showtopic=11150), then scan. When scanning finishes, remove all Critical Objects found. Next, run Spybot S&D. First update it, then run a scan ("Check for problems"). Trust Spybot, and delete everything ("Fix Problems") that is displayed in Red. Then, run HijackThis ("Scan"). Do NOT make any changes immediately. Save the HJT Log. http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showtopic=227 http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showtopic=11150 Finally, have your HJT log interpreted by experts at one or more of the following security forums (and please post a link to your forum posts, here): Aumha: http://forum.aumha.org/index.php Net-Integration: http://forums.net-integration.net/ Spyware Info: http://forums.spywareinfo.com/ Spyware Warrior: http://spywarewarrior.com/index.php Tom Coyote: http://forums.tomcoyote.org/ If removal of any spyware affects your ability to access the internet (some spyware builds itself into the network software, and its removal may damage your network), run LSP-Fix and / or WinsockXPFIx. And Britney, please don't contribute to the spread and success of email address mining viruses. Posting your email address openly will get you more unwanted email, than wanted email. Learn to munge your email address properly, to keep yourself a bit safer when posting to open forums. Protect yourself and the rest of the internet - read this article. http://www.mailmsg.com/SPAM_munging.htm -- Cheers, Chuck Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing. |
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can't go to a website!!!
thanks, I will try it and let you know
"Chuck" wrote in message ... On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:36:22 -0500, "Britney" *email_address_deleted* wrote: Hi all, I have a windows xp sp2 machine, one day, I try to go to a hot deal website to buy a computer product, when I click on the link, which go to http://click.linksynergy.com , but the webpage doesn't work (page cannot display), however, I used my laptop and other computers, the webpage works. So I did further troubleshooting, I went to command prompt, I type ping click.linksynergy.com something is really weird, it returns 127.0.0.1 , I checked my "host" & "lmhost.sam" files, they don't have any click.linksynergy.com mapping, I'm confused about this, what else could be the problem? Britney, Examine "hosts" carefully, using Notepad. Scroll to the end of the file, by hitting Ctrl-End, then back up to the top, page by page, before deciding that it is empty. Look out for blank lines at the beginning and end of the file, after localhost, placed there by an exploit. Next, check for a registry hijack. Use Regedit, and look at the contents of [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Tcpip\Parameters\DataB asePath]. That would normally contain "%SystemRoot%\System32\drivers\etc", but is being hijacked by various malware to use a hosts file placed elsewhere. Now check for, and learn to defend against, additional problems - adware, crapware, spyware. Start by downloading each of the following additional free tools: AdAware http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ HijackThis http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=3155 LSP-Fix http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm WinsockXPFix http://www.spychecker.com/program/winsockxpfix.html Spybot S&D http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=download Stinger http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=stinger Create a separate folder for HijackThis, such as C:\HijackThis - copy the downloaded file there. AdAware and Spybot S&D have install routines - run them. The other downloaded programs can be copied into, and run from, any convenient folder. First, run Stinger. Have it remove any problems found. Next, run AdAware. First update it, configure for full scan (http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showtopic=11150), then scan. When scanning finishes, remove all Critical Objects found. Next, run Spybot S&D. First update it, then run a scan ("Check for problems"). Trust Spybot, and delete everything ("Fix Problems") that is displayed in Red. Then, run HijackThis ("Scan"). Do NOT make any changes immediately. Save the HJT Log. http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showtopic=227 http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showtopic=11150 Finally, have your HJT log interpreted by experts at one or more of the following security forums (and please post a link to your forum posts, here): Aumha: http://forum.aumha.org/index.php Net-Integration: http://forums.net-integration.net/ Spyware Info: http://forums.spywareinfo.com/ Spyware Warrior: http://spywarewarrior.com/index.php Tom Coyote: http://forums.tomcoyote.org/ If removal of any spyware affects your ability to access the internet (some spyware builds itself into the network software, and its removal may damage your network), run LSP-Fix and / or WinsockXPFIx. And Britney, please don't contribute to the spread and success of email address mining viruses. Posting your email address openly will get you more unwanted email, than wanted email. Learn to munge your email address properly, to keep yourself a bit safer when posting to open forums. Protect yourself and the rest of the internet - read this article. http://www.mailmsg.com/SPAM_munging.htm -- Cheers, Chuck Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing. |
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can't go to a website!!!
thanks, I will try it and let you know
"Chuck" wrote in message ... On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:36:22 -0500, "Britney" *email_address_deleted* wrote: Hi all, I have a windows xp sp2 machine, one day, I try to go to a hot deal website to buy a computer product, when I click on the link, which go to http://click.linksynergy.com , but the webpage doesn't work (page cannot display), however, I used my laptop and other computers, the webpage works. So I did further troubleshooting, I went to command prompt, I type ping click.linksynergy.com something is really weird, it returns 127.0.0.1 , I checked my "host" & "lmhost.sam" files, they don't have any click.linksynergy.com mapping, I'm confused about this, what else could be the problem? Britney, Examine "hosts" carefully, using Notepad. Scroll to the end of the file, by hitting Ctrl-End, then back up to the top, page by page, before deciding that it is empty. Look out for blank lines at the beginning and end of the file, after localhost, placed there by an exploit. Next, check for a registry hijack. Use Regedit, and look at the contents of [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Tcpip\Parameters\DataB asePath]. That would normally contain "%SystemRoot%\System32\drivers\etc", but is being hijacked by various malware to use a hosts file placed elsewhere. Now check for, and learn to defend against, additional problems - adware, crapware, spyware. Start by downloading each of the following additional free tools: AdAware http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ HijackThis http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=3155 LSP-Fix http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm WinsockXPFix http://www.spychecker.com/program/winsockxpfix.html Spybot S&D http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=download Stinger http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=stinger Create a separate folder for HijackThis, such as C:\HijackThis - copy the downloaded file there. AdAware and Spybot S&D have install routines - run them. The other downloaded programs can be copied into, and run from, any convenient folder. First, run Stinger. Have it remove any problems found. Next, run AdAware. First update it, configure for full scan (http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showtopic=11150), then scan. When scanning finishes, remove all Critical Objects found. Next, run Spybot S&D. First update it, then run a scan ("Check for problems"). Trust Spybot, and delete everything ("Fix Problems") that is displayed in Red. Then, run HijackThis ("Scan"). Do NOT make any changes immediately. Save the HJT Log. http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showtopic=227 http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showtopic=11150 Finally, have your HJT log interpreted by experts at one or more of the following security forums (and please post a link to your forum posts, here): Aumha: http://forum.aumha.org/index.php Net-Integration: http://forums.net-integration.net/ Spyware Info: http://forums.spywareinfo.com/ Spyware Warrior: http://spywarewarrior.com/index.php Tom Coyote: http://forums.tomcoyote.org/ If removal of any spyware affects your ability to access the internet (some spyware builds itself into the network software, and its removal may damage your network), run LSP-Fix and / or WinsockXPFIx. And Britney, please don't contribute to the spread and success of email address mining viruses. Posting your email address openly will get you more unwanted email, than wanted email. Learn to munge your email address properly, to keep yourself a bit safer when posting to open forums. Protect yourself and the rest of the internet - read this article. http://www.mailmsg.com/SPAM_munging.htm -- Cheers, Chuck Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing. |
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can't go to a website!!!
Hi Chuck,
I think it's problem in host file, for some reason, I can't find anything wrong in the content of host, but anyway I renamed it to host.bak, then create a brand new file host, then the problem solved. I'm still confused, I wonder if my host file is corrupted or I just don't know how to read it, I only see 127.0.0.1 localhost there "Britney" wrote in message ... thanks, I will try it and let you know "Chuck" wrote in message ... On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:36:22 -0500, "Britney" *email_address_deleted* wrote: Hi all, I have a windows xp sp2 machine, one day, I try to go to a hot deal website to buy a computer product, when I click on the link, which go to http://click.linksynergy.com , but the webpage doesn't work (page cannot display), however, I used my laptop and other computers, the webpage works. So I did further troubleshooting, I went to command prompt, I type ping click.linksynergy.com something is really weird, it returns 127.0.0.1 , I checked my "host" & "lmhost.sam" files, they don't have any click.linksynergy.com mapping, I'm confused about this, what else could be the problem? Britney, Examine "hosts" carefully, using Notepad. Scroll to the end of the file, by hitting Ctrl-End, then back up to the top, page by page, before deciding that it is empty. Look out for blank lines at the beginning and end of the file, after localhost, placed there by an exploit. Next, check for a registry hijack. Use Regedit, and look at the contents of [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Tcpip\Parameters\DataB asePath]. That would normally contain "%SystemRoot%\System32\drivers\etc", but is being hijacked by various malware to use a hosts file placed elsewhere. Now check for, and learn to defend against, additional problems - adware, crapware, spyware. Start by downloading each of the following additional free tools: AdAware http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ HijackThis http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=3155 LSP-Fix http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm WinsockXPFix http://www.spychecker.com/program/winsockxpfix.html Spybot S&D http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=download Stinger http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=stinger Create a separate folder for HijackThis, such as C:\HijackThis - copy the downloaded file there. AdAware and Spybot S&D have install routines - run them. The other downloaded programs can be copied into, and run from, any convenient folder. First, run Stinger. Have it remove any problems found. Next, run AdAware. First update it, configure for full scan (http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showtopic=11150), then scan. When scanning finishes, remove all Critical Objects found. Next, run Spybot S&D. First update it, then run a scan ("Check for problems"). Trust Spybot, and delete everything ("Fix Problems") that is displayed in Red. Then, run HijackThis ("Scan"). Do NOT make any changes immediately. Save the HJT Log. http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showtopic=227 http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showtopic=11150 Finally, have your HJT log interpreted by experts at one or more of the following security forums (and please post a link to your forum posts, here): Aumha: http://forum.aumha.org/index.php Net-Integration: http://forums.net-integration.net/ Spyware Info: http://forums.spywareinfo.com/ Spyware Warrior: http://spywarewarrior.com/index.php Tom Coyote: http://forums.tomcoyote.org/ If removal of any spyware affects your ability to access the internet (some spyware builds itself into the network software, and its removal may damage your network), run LSP-Fix and / or WinsockXPFIx. And Britney, please don't contribute to the spread and success of email address mining viruses. Posting your email address openly will get you more unwanted email, than wanted email. Learn to munge your email address properly, to keep yourself a bit safer when posting to open forums. Protect yourself and the rest of the internet - read this article. http://www.mailmsg.com/SPAM_munging.htm -- Cheers, Chuck Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing. |
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can't go to a website!!!
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 10:17:51 -0500, "Britney" *email_address_deleted* wrote:
Hi Chuck, I think it's problem in host file, for some reason, I can't find anything wrong in the content of host, but anyway I renamed it to host.bak, then create a brand new file host, then the problem solved. I'm still confused, I wonder if my host file is corrupted or I just don't know how to read it, I only see 127.0.0.1 localhost there Britney, For mysterious circumstances like this, IMHO, you should do a virus and spyware check. Just renaming the hosts file might solve the problem temporarily, but the software that changed it may change it again. HijackThis, when examined by experts, should reveal any problem. -- Cheers, Chuck Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing. |
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