Computers: This Page Cannot Be Displayed – What to do When Your Internet Breaks

This Page Cannot Be Displayed – What to do When Your Internet Breaks

Written by Kevin Souter

The DNS (Domain Name System) servers are what your computer uses to figure out where to go on repparttar

internet. www.whatever.com means absolutely nothing to your machine. It’s only with repparttar 141226

help of

DNS servers that your computer can figure out what address that domain name correlates to.

There are several methods of hijacking repparttar 141228 DNS entries on your PC. The most common, and easiest way to do it is to add false entries into your computers HOSTS file. We’ll cover how to empty that out first:

The HOSTS file is located in a couple of different locations, depending on your Windows version. In Windows XP it is located at C:WINDOWSsystem32driversetchosts (no extension). In Windows 98/ME it is at C:Windowshosts (also no extension).

Open it up with notepad. The contents of repparttar 141229 file should look like this:

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

# This file contains repparttar 141230 mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each

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

Spyware – Your Web Browser is the Culprit!

Written by Kevin Souter

My first experience with a spyware BHO based infection was several months ago. I had gone through all of repparttar

usual steps with repparttar 141225

client’s machine to clean it. Ad-Aware was run, Spybot: Search and Destroy was as well. Nothing looked suspicious in repparttar 141226

system’s startup. All appeared well, but it wasn’t.

After extensive testing and no further symptoms I returned repparttar 141227 computer to my client’s home. I hooked it back up, and dialed repparttar 141228 internet. Everything so far was progressing smoothly. But, as SOON as I loaded Internet Explorer: BAM repparttar 141229 same pop-up advertisements and other annoying things started happening again. With much embarrassment I had to take repparttar 141230 computer back to my office and try again.

It was all Internet Explorers fault. Microsoft Internet Explorer comes with a feature that is designed to add third-party functionality to their browser. It’s actually a very good idea. Unfortunately, it now gets taken advantage of.

The producers of spyware know that many people now have spyware removers installed on their computers. They also know that quite a few people have repparttar 141231 ability to check what is in their start-up. Because of this, BHO’s are crafted so that repparttar 141232 spyware lies dormant until Internet Explorer is opened. Then it can start its dirty work.

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