Re: [PCWorks] IE can't open URLs after AV7 removal
- From: "Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin" <PCWorks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 06:58:35 -0500
Dale run HijackThis and see if it shows anything related to
this. Better yet, just post the log results here.
I doubt the Hosts file would cause this, unless it was indeed
malware and it wrote in the Hosts file some kind of "wildcard"
for all websites. Yeah you shouldn't "delete" the Hosts file,
just rename it. IE will still "work the same" without it, what
will happen is if there are any bad websites listed in it,
those sites will have access to your PC.
-Clint
God Bless,
Clint Hamilton, Owner
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Phill Argus"
Greetings Dale
This type of behaviour is sometimes caused by corruption of the
hosts
file. I don't use Vista so I cant give you a path, but a
search should
turn it up easily. In XP at least, I have just deleted the
whole file
with no consequences - BUT BACK UP first, just in case.
Phill
On 15/05/2010 02:55, Dale E. Heltzer wrote:
> A friend got AV7 on her laptop (Vista Home, IE 8). It looked
> like Norton
> removed it because when she searched for its files, according
> to a
> 411-spyware article, she found nothing.
>
> Now when opening IE8 her Home Page comes up OK, but when she
> tries to
> open any other URL (Favorite or entered manually), the About
> page comes
> up only.
> Her e-mail seems unaffected.
>
> Solutions?
> TIA.
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