mccarron
IS-IT--Management
- Jul 10, 2008
- 5
Yesterday while browsing, Mcafee alerted me to a trojan and then my system locked up. When I got it back up and running I ran a full scan, but when I tried to update from mcafee the connection was refused. I tried to do a windows update and it told me my firewall was probably blocking the site. I turned off firewall and tried again. As the day wore on I started getting the same error message from almost every tech support site or virus download site. All other websites seem to work as usual. I did an NSLOOKUP on these sites and got addresses. If I ping or put those addresses in my browser, I can get to the site (only for that one page a link gets the connection refused), but If I do a Tracert with the URL it says there is only one hop to that address 127.0.0.1. I checked and I do not have a hosts file.
Any ideas how my system would send a selective list of websites to a loopback address without a host file? Can the system be used to use anything other than the hosts file? If someone was using a proxy on me would all the websites go to 127.0.0.1.
If you have any ideas please let me know. If you don't have any ideas could you look on the mcafee website and get a telephone number for support. I can't access their website to get it.
Any ideas how my system would send a selective list of websites to a loopback address without a host file? Can the system be used to use anything other than the hosts file? If someone was using a proxy on me would all the websites go to 127.0.0.1.
If you have any ideas please let me know. If you don't have any ideas could you look on the mcafee website and get a telephone number for support. I can't access their website to get it.