From: Mike on 10/04/2003
I can ping IP addresses, including the DNS servers that are set (you can list them with run - winipcfg for those reading this) but yet when I try to ping "yahoo.com" or use a web browser (several) it can't seem to resolve the address. I can even ping yahoo.com with it's IP address entered, but not with the name.
I am stuck, I tried re-installing windows over what I have and tried removing the LAN card interface drivers et al via control panel, system, and let it re-install everything again, but no good, reboot over and over try different things, no luck.
Last resort is a complete wipe, so can anyone tell me what the DNS program or DLL is called so I can try to manually re-load it? I already checked everything with the SFC and all seems well.
After being really stupid, or actually desperate, I installed a program that installs some spyware figuring I could remove it with AdAware plus zone alarm catches outgoing anyway so ha ha on them. Well I think it installed it's own DNS thing and after removing all the spyware I am stuck with their changed version of DNS.
Why oh why does windows let anyone write over these files? This is so beyond stupid, no one with half a brain would allow greedy marketing companies write over your main operating system, you know they will use it to try to spam you or in this case redirect you to their crap, and billy boy wonders why people are heading towards Linux.
I'm seriously considering switching to Linux and giving up on this.Thanks in advance for any help.
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From: Mike on 10/05/2003
In case someone else has this problem, the above solution worked, I followed the directions very carefully, edited my regedit like it said and restarted twice and things are back to normal!
So if your browser can't seem to find any internet sites, reloading this winsock will do it. Wish there was a easier way, I will probably forget this in a few days.
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From: Mike on 10/04/2003
Further info, I did remove this newdotnet thing, and that may cause the problem, it seems after I researched this that it tampers with the default winsock settings, and ad removal software doesn't seem to remove this properly. The newdotnet site is suposto have a uninstaller, but I tried the regular uninstaller after letting adaware put it's files back, no luck. So you think I am going to trust them? This thing redirects things your browser is going for to their sites.This site explains it more with some fix info I will try
http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm
http://www.cexx.org/newnet.htm
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