rectifying virus damage...

[Captain O]

I had a virus, and I think it's done something to screw up my DNS type
stuff....
basically, MSN messenger, and windows update don't work, because I think
they're connecting to the wrong IP address.

I was wondering if there was another place like the HOSTS file that I should
look in for spurious entries?

Or is it possible for a registry entry to change the location windows looks
at for
it's hosts file?


Thankyou very much for any help you can give me!

TIA, Dan

 

[Dusty Harper {MS}]

Perform an NSLookup. This will tell you what the DNS server returns for the
hostname. You can also look in LMHosts, however this is a NetBios name
mapping file that augments WINs.