Same ISP - cable internet - locations about 5 miles away.....no phone line,
cable modem (the only difference is that we have a router here @ work).
I think it is something "evil" that I cannot detect. I have run adaware
professional, have a continuously udated version of avg antivirus, have run
all that plus spybot in safe mode and anything i have removed has still not
corrected the problem. I have currently posted a hijack this log on another
website......waiting for notification on what to remove. I am totally at a
loss tho - it seems odd that it happened the minute that we switched ISP's
yet my ISP says that it's me not them. I am inclined to believe it tho as no
problems at work and problems at home.
When I go home I will look at that file on the pc - if I do find that this
particular thing is the problem then what is it that I do to rectify it?
Thanks so much for your help. I was "infected" before about two yrs ago by
popnav due to my sister-in-law using my computer and now I am so much more
careful. Seems odd that I do the exact same things here that I do at home
and how I can get infected there is a mystery to me......*sigh
Amy
"Daniel Crichton" wrote:
> When you say "the same broadband connection", do you mean using the same
> ISP, or the same physical telephone line at the same location?
>
> If the former, then it could be a proxy that the ISP is running, and my
> previous post suggestions should still be followed. If not, then it's your
> PC.
>
> It could be that something on your machine is stopping things from working.
> I'd suggest giving it a full check with a bunch of anti-virus and
> anti-malware tools, there are many posts in this group with recommendations
> on which to use. Also take a look at the hosts file (located in
> c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts) - if this has a lot of entries for
> 127.0.0.1 in it then either you're running some sort of security program
> that has added all these (something like a personal firewall, or advert
> blocking software), or some malicious software has done it to prevent you
> accessing things like Windows Update and I'd guess a range of well-known
> security sites.
>
> Dan
>
> AmyM wrote on Tue, 14 Feb 2006 07:08:32 -0800:
>
> > Another question........I CAN access all these sites from work - which is
> > also using the same broadband connection..........what would make me
> > unable to get to any of Microsoft's sites - including my automatic update?
> > Not going thru a router, only using a cable modem (surfboard 5120).
> >
> > "Daniel Crichton" wrote:
> >
> >> AmyM wrote on Tue, 14 Feb 2006 06:13:06 -0800:
> >>
> >>> I recently upgraded from dialup to broadband internet service on
> >>> 2/11/06. Since changing the way that I access the internet I have run
> >>> into problems with my internet explorer. It goes like this.........
> >>>
> >>> Cannot access ANY microsoft page - including my automatic updates.
> >>> Cannot access certain secure sites - anything to do w/a .gov or the
> >>> sprintpcs website, but CAN access my credit card sites. Can get on ebay
> >>> but cannot view any items - can see the pix but can't view them via the
> >>> link.
> >>>
> >>> The pages that won't load are giving me the "web page not found" server
> >>> busy try again later page. The ebay page gives me a 400-bad request
> >>> error.
> >>
> >> This might be the answer. 400 Bad Request is often related to how virtual
> >> hosting is handled - basically, your PC is not including the Host: header
> >> in
> >> the outgoing HTTP requests. Assuming your browser is working correctly,
> >> this points to the following as most likely:
> >>
> >> (a) there's a proxy server at your ISP that is messing up the requests by
> >> not including the headers
> >>
> >> (b) you have some "security" software (personal firewall or "privacy"
> >> application) on your PC that is removing HTTP headers
> >>
> >> (c) you're using a so-called "anonymous" service for accessing the web
> >> which is just another name for a proxy
> >>
> >> (d) your broadband router (if you have one) is messing up the requests
> >> with some sort of internal proxy, possibly as part of it's SPI/NAT
> >> handling.
> >>
> >> If it's something like this, you will be able to access any sites that
> >> are on their own IP address (and so don't need the Host: header), but
> >> nothing
> >> else.
> >>
> >> Check the proxy settings in IE, turn off the Automatic proxy detection if
> >> it's enabled and see if that helps. If you lose all web access, turn it
> >> back on again and contact your ISP - this will indicate that they're
> >> forcing all outgoing web connections to go through their proxy.
> >>
> >> Dan
> >>
>
>
>
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