Does Windows Keep A List of Web Sites Not to Visit

[Alfred B. Stansbury]

Over the weekend I found not one, not two, but three worms in my machine. I
removed them all using the McAfee Stinger program. According to McAfee
Viruscan I have a clean system now. But I have some lingering symptoms.

I cannot browse out in any browser IE, Mozilla, Opera, or Netscape to the
McAfee or Symantec sites. I can reach most others, though.

So I'm wondering if somewhere in the Windows registry there's some setting
listing sites not to browse to. I've check and rechecked the browsers and
can't think of any other explanation. Anybody out there have any good
ideas?

TIA.

Stan Stansbury

 

[David Candy]

Type in Start Run
notepad %windir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

Is symantec in there? If so remove the line. If not you are still infected with a virus.

 

[wayne]

If you have a boot disk and are using fat32 you may want to boot to dos and
use the stinger program or at least boot safe mode command prompt only and
run the stinger program.

Some viruses do block certain web sites and it may be loading and hiding
itself before you run stinger!

Wayne

Over the weekend I found not one, not two, but three worms in my machine. I
removed them all using the McAfee Stinger program. According to McAfee
Viruscan I have a clean system now. But I have some lingering symptoms.

I cannot browse out in any browser IE, Mozilla, Opera, or Netscape to the
McAfee or Symantec sites. I can reach most others, though.

So I'm wondering if somewhere in the Windows registry there's some setting
listing sites not to browse to. I've check and rechecked the browsers and
can't think of any other explanation. Anybody out there have any good
ideas?

TIA.

Stan Stansbury


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[Alfred B. Stansbury]

Type in Start Run
notepad %windir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

Is symantec in there? If so remove the line. If not you are still
infected with a virus.

David, thanks for suggesting this. The hosts file was the trick. One of the
worms added about 50 carriage returns to hide its tracks, and then mapped a
whole long list of antivirus sites to the IP for the localhost, 127.0.0.1.
It's all better now.

Stan Stansbury