Re: [OT] Explorer HELP

["Ben Geach" <BenUKHA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> The demon spawn has been surfing again (not me guv honest).
> I now have a porn index page stuck on Inernet Explorer which I cannot
get rid of by
changing the settings back to use blank, also when I type in a URL it goes
to a
ww.heretofind search page and wont let me go where I want.
>
> Any advice greatly appreciated.
>
> Alancc

Check your HOSTS file in c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc.

Open it in Notepad. As you probably have some ip addresses mapped to the
porn
site. IE always checks the hosts file b4 going out to the DNS server to
find a website.

The only listing in hosts file should be:
127.0.0.1 locallost

If there are references to websites you didnt put there, wipe em out and
resave.
Before saving . . . keep a renamed copy of hosts file just in case!!


HTH,
Ben
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Some history of HOSTS files from http://www.theallineed.com/computers/
hosts_file_block_web_sites.htm

When you type a domain name into your Web browser, Internet Protocol
contacts a
computer that is a domain name server to look up the IP address of the Web
site. In
the early days, the Internet didn't need domain name servers. Every
computer had a
file named HOSTS that listed the domain name and IP address of the systems
connected to the Internet.

Even today when your Web browser needs to resolve a domain name to an IP
address,
it first looks for a file named HOSTS on the local computer. In Windows NT,
the HOSTS
file is located in c:\windows\system32\drivers\. In Windows 9x, the HOSTS
file is
located in c:\windows\.