IE nor Firefox working properly.

[Ryuson99]

For some wierd reason IE or Firefox are not working on my sisters computer, I can ping sites and I'm sure my connections are good but IE and firefox are giving me errors.

I think it might be the firewall, I'm going to check that now.

 

[amdskip]

Check the hosts file too.

 

[Ryuson99]

Please elaborate.

 

[montag451]

First, what os? what firewall? what connection? what other info might give us a clue?
help us out here

 

[redbeard1]

You might try this.

lspfix

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: amdskip
Check the hosts file too.

Originally posted by: Ryuson99
Please elaborate.

C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

Open the file with Notepad, and post the lines (usually the last ones) that don't have a # before them. There should really be one line there - 127.0.0.1 localhost. Sometimes spyware will add settings there that redirect traffic to adservers.

And do try that LSPfix. Sometimes when spyware installs, it makes changes to files that affect the TCP/IP stack. When the spyware is removed, these files are taken away too, partially disabling TCP/IP. That handy program there fixes that problem.

 

[fuzzynavel]

what are the errors that IE and firefox are throwing at you?

 

[gsaldivar]

Try this, post your results back to this thread:

http://www.schadentech.com/Malware/removal.htm