virus protection

peach · Post by **peach** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 4:30 pm

anyone know a good freeware for virus protection?

llama · Post by **llama** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 4:39 pm

Dont know if it's good but you can try AVG Antivirus

Cams69 · Post by **Cams69** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 5:47 pm

Its pretty decent...not overly erm...irritating like some of the others.

peach · Post by **peach** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 10:00 pm

the website doesnt work, any idea why?

magictiger · Post by **magictiger** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 11:28 pm

working fine here
It's possible you have a piece of malware that's redirecting it, but I doubt that.
Try it again and see.

peach · Post by **peach** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 11:38 am

nothin

cleared internet caches so it isnt that

magictiger · Post by **magictiger** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 11:49 am

run a tracert and see if it goes all the way.
It should be resolving www.grisoft.com to 193.86.103.19

peach · Post by **peach** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 12:04 pm

nope, doesnt go thru

magictiger · Post by **magictiger** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:40 pm

Then that would be why you can't get there.
Is it resolving to the IP I posted though? If not, check your hosts file and make sure the only entry is localhost.

peach · Post by **peach** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:44 pm

can't tell about the ip or not, the dos prompt blinks for a second and is gone

wheres the host file at?

bho · Post by **bho** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 2:12 pm

i believe its windows\system32\drivers\etc in xp.

magictiger · Post by **magictiger** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 5:06 pm

instead of doing tracert www.grisoft.com from your Run box, run cmd, then type it in at the command line.
Keeps the box from disappearing immediately.

peach · Post by **peach** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 5:35 pm

not the ip you posted:

C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>tracert www.grisoft.com

Tracing route to www.grisoft.com [127.0.0.70]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms and.doxdesk.com [127.0.0.1]

Trace complete.

bho · Post by **bho** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 9:26 pm

looks like the hosts file, do a file search if its not where i said and find it, generally in a folder within \WINDOWS\ or \WINNT\. c/p that file here!

peach · Post by **peach** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 9:46 pm

should i delete everything in it except localhost? there's like 20 other things in it =x