Re: Virus blocking windows update??

From: Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\) (Torgeir.Bakken-spam_at_hydro.com)
Date: 12/04/04 

Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 20:29:08 +0100

Cyril wrote:

> Hi
> Thanks for the advice
> I was unable to access your trend micro pages but I ran the online scan
> instead: it didn't detect anything. On the other hand stinger detected Qhosts
> apd trojan in 2 locations and repaired the infected files. Adaware just
> deleted one cookie. AVG7 didn't detect anything too.
>
> Bur it is still not working...
> What to do next...?
Hi

For your browsing issues to different web sites:

Your hosts file could be compromised, edit the following
file with Notepad:

Win95/98/ME: %windir%\hosts
Windows NT/2000/XP: %windir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

Click Start >> Run >>
Type the follow command in the Open box.
"notepad %windir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts" (w/o quotes)
Press Ok

If there is anything within the file, remove anything but the line

127.0.0.1 localhost

and the comment lines at the top.

Be sure to go to the end of the file, sometimes the bad
app have added a lot of blank lines before the host entries
added to the file. 

-- 
torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of
the 1328 page Scripting Guide:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/default.mspx

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