XP Home - ping but no browsing

[JasonH]

Hi all.

Have a WinXP Home system that was "infected" with FlashlightSearch.com.
Also had some other ad-sharing stuff on it. All that is gone now (thanks to
Spybot and Ad-Aware).

I'm able to ping an IP address but am not able to browse a site. It's like
the system is not resolving domain names now for some reason. Can't ping by
domain name - nothing.

I know the DNS servers and correct and working because I control them as
well. Brand new NIC in it as well as tested good cable and network port.
Same thing happens if I try to use a dialup connection.

Have tried reinstalling SP, IE, and resetting TCP/IP as described somewhere
on MS's site.

Any other suggestions other than reinstalling?

 

[roger]

Hi Jason,

Error Message:"Page Cannot be Displayed" When You Browse the
Internet
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;812336


HTH

 

[JasonH]

Been through all those already - still no go.

Any other thoughts?

 

[roger]

LSP-Fix
Repairs Winsock 2 settings, caused by buggy or improperly-removed
Internet software, that result in loss of Internet access
http://cexx.org/lspfix.htm

 

[Malke]

Hi all.

Have a WinXP Home system that was "infected" with
FlashlightSearch.com.
Also had some other ad-sharing stuff on it. All that is gone now
(thanks to Spybot and Ad-Aware).

I'm able to ping an IP address but am not able to browse a site. It's
like
the system is not resolving domain names now for some reason. Can't
ping by domain name - nothing.

I know the DNS servers and correct and working because I control them
as
well. Brand new NIC in it as well as tested good cable and network
port. Same thing happens if I try to use a dialup connection.

Have tried reinstalling SP, IE, and resetting TCP/IP as described
somewhere on MS's site.

Any other suggestions other than reinstalling?

Go to XP's Search and set the preferences to Advanced and be sure it is
checked to look in hidden files. Now enter the search term "hosts"
without the quotes. You'll probably get about 4 results, some of which
might be lmhosts. You need to open each of those files and examine
them. Do this by double-clicking on a file to open it. You'll get the
Windows dialog - what program should Windows use to open this? - and
you should choose "select from a list". Select Notepad and make sure
the box for "always use this program to open files of this type" is
*not* checked. Now look at the file. The only entry that should be
there is:

127.0.0.1 localhost

If there is anything else uncommented (lines that begin with a # mark
are comments and don't count), delete it. Make sure you scroll all the
way to the bottom of the window if there is a scrollbar. Now Save the
file. Do this for all the hosts and lmhosts files you found.

Malke

 

[JasonH]

This took care of me. Thanks a million Roger

 

[roger]

You're very welcome. Jason
Glad to help.

This took care of me. Thanks a million Roger