Re: Help! Antivirus websites "cannot be displayed"
 

That log looks good now, so if you are not experiencing any problems, you can mark this as solved :)

Re: Help! Antivirus websites "cannot be displayed"
 

there is always something more, to do,
not always practical, but always something
a thumb drive with a bunch of portable apps on it, for recovery and antivirus, can clean the pc when I do something really stupid (1-3/month) the infection in the host pc cant block the scanner or its update, the pc does not know of the software on the flash drive
Avast
MWAB
CClean -not as a registry cleaner, snake oil
super anti-spyware
1-2-3 Spy Free
all have thumb drive versions
ant-spyware programs are good to have in multiples, as the update delay and detection ability varies, each can find things the others might miss

Re: Help! Antivirus websites "cannot be displayed"
 

Post the contents of your HOSTS file.

Re: Help! Antivirus websites "cannot be displayed"
 

Where is the HOSTS file?

Re: Help! Antivirus websites "cannot be displayed"
 

What version of windows are you using

Re: Help! Antivirus websites "cannot be displayed"
 

Vista

StevenJ. Are you still having problems??

Re: Help! Antivirus websites "cannot be displayed"
 

1) Do Start -> All Programs -> Accessories
2) Right click "Notepad" and choose "Run as administrator"
3) Click "Continue" on the UAC prompt
5) Go file -> Open and browse to "C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc"
6) Change the file filter drop down box from "Text Documents (*.txt)" to "All Files (*.*)"
7) Select "HOSTS" and click open

It should contain only

# Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.

#

# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.

#

# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each

# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should

# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.

# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one

# space.

#

# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual

# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.

#

# For example:

#

#      102.54.94.97     rhino.acme.com          # source server

#       38.25.63.10     x.acme.com              # x client host



127.0.0.1       localhost

Spybot and spywareblaster like to modify it to block bad sites but whats above is the default. Lots of malwares modify this file in the same way so when you try to go to a certain domain it will redirect you to another site or back to localhost, which will give you an error.

Re: Help! Antivirus websites "cannot be displayed"
 

All about Hosts files, and a very good one
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

Re: Help! Antivirus websites "cannot be displayed"
 

Seems like you's are posting in vain and the thread is also marked as solved.

Re: Help! Antivirus websites "cannot be displayed"
 

Sorry about that, was finishing some work.

host file is:

# Copyright (c) 1993-2006 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host

127.0.0.1 localhost