[TriLUG] what is blocking a website in winxp?

[Sean Leinart]

Another good, legit,
and free Anti-Malware app 
for Wintel boxes is one called
Malwarebytes from malwarebytes.org
careful if you google for it though,
as the first couple of hits are for
boguswarez not the real app.


Sean Leinart
First Service Carolina Inc.
Raleigh, North Carolina
United States
 

 



-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org on behalf of Neil L. Little
Sent: Tue 21-Apr-09 4:54 PM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] what is blocking a website in winxp?
 
ok got it backwards....NSLOOKUP

Neil L. Little wrote:
> I think you can query the DNS using...LOOKLNS from CMD on a winders 
> machine.
> That might not be right. Its been a while.
>
> Carl Crider wrote:
>> Have you checked the HOSTS file? Also check for a hidden copy of it.
>> Sounds like a case of xx_ware to me. I second looking at DNS on the
>> box Vs your laptop. Clean the machine ASAP.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 4/21/09, James Jones <jc.jones at tuftux.com> wrote:
>>> All,
>>>
>>> A friend of mine has a winxp-home pc with sp-3 installed. Using any of
>>> 3 browsers, ( opera, IE6, firefox ), she cannot go to one website that
>>> she used to visit regularly. She receives a timeout. I can hook my
>>> laptop into her network and using any browser on either winxp or
>>> ubuntu, I can access the website with no problem.
>>>
>>> From her winxp, I can ping the site and do a tracert to the site with
>>> no problem.
>>>
>>> I can disable her norton anti-virus and windows firewall and there is
>>> no change. There are no entries in restricted areas of ie, no entries
>>> in hosts file.
>>>
>>> I have even tried to use the system restore, but system restore is
>>> always incomplete -- no changes.
>>>
>>> What am I missing?
>>>
>>> The website is http://www.healthjobsusa.com ( she is looking for a
>>> nursing job and needs to connect ).
>>>
>>> If I don't have a solution soon, I guess I can always install ubuntu
>>> as a dual boot so she can get to the site --
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Jc Jones
>>> Blogs -
>>> http://www.wendellgeek.com/weblog/
>>> http://kixtech.blogspot.com/
>>>
>>> webmaster for:
>>> http://www.raleighchurchofchrist.org
>>> http://www.wendellgeek.com
>>> http://classof1955.org
>>> http://www.tuftux.com
>>> http://www.dabeak.com
>>> http://www.therealpatpatterson.com
>>> http://jonesjc.freeshell.org
>>> http://www.trilug.org/~jonesjc
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