Help! IE Being Wonky

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Jojober

Dalayan Beginner
hi hi everyone. I seem to have run into some problems today. I'm sure it isn't directly SoD related, but it does affect my ability to play, so I turn to you for help.

I left my computer to take a nap, and when I came back, I had random messages on the PC about my computer being infected and prompting me to run some fake virus checker. I had the good sense not to go through with it. I ran spysweeper and malware bytes and got a few things removed. The pop ups stopped, and I am able to run programs again, while before any time I tried, I was denied and told my pc was infected.

Now i am able to use Firefox, but my internet explorer won't work. That is why I'm unable to play SoD! Bottom line is I need to figure out how to get IE to work again. I tried restoring the browser defaults. I tried going into Tools > Internet Options > Connections > LAN Connections > and checking "Automatically Detect Settings." Nothing is working. Its seems like any time I try to type an address in, IE is trying to redirect, but it just doesn't work. Comes up with Page Cannot Be Displayed.

So does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix IE? Or, in the meantime, is there a way to get SoD Patcher to go through Firefox rather than IE? Thanks in advance!

Jojo
 
Jojober said:
Or, in the meantime, is there a way to get SoD Patcher to go through Firefox rather than IE? Thanks in advance!
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what?
SoD Patcher doesnt use either of those programs. It's an independant exe that pulls from the sod's servers to patch.
 
Oops misread this. Basically see if IE works after each of these steps. You can stop if it does.

1) DNS client needs to be active for IE to work. goto start>control panel>admin tools>services; and look for DNS client. now highlight it by right clicking>properties - set startup type to automatic, then set service status to start.

2) After that, check C:windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
it should look something like this;


# 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
::1 localhost

Both spyware and anti spyware tools can add lines to this file. You may want to delete any of those entries.
Hosts is a pre-cursor to dns, when all ips were manually entered into this single file for resolution back when the internet was
arpanet and very small. These will look like ;

# 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
::1 localhost
# Start of entries inserted by Spybot - Search & Destroy
127.0.0.1 www.007guard.com
127.0.0.1 007guard.com
127.0.0.1 008i.com
127.0.0.1 www.008k.com
127.0.0.1 008k.com
127.0.0.1 www.00hq.com
127.0.0.1 00hq.com
127.0.0.1 010402.com
127.0.0.1 www.032439.com
127.0.0.1 032439.com
127.0.0.1 www.100888290cs.com
127.0.0.1 100888290cs.com


as an example. Basically, if a browser is re-directed to www.007gurd.com, it will look for the
url on 127.0.0.1 port 80. It's looking for it on you local machine in other words. It's basically a
block list. The file should be checked in case a line in here broke something.

3) Next, Also check your connection settings.

Tools->Internet Options->Connections->Lan Settings

Make sure that the use proxy server is not selected if you are on a direct connection or selected with the correct proxy IP and Port if u are using a proxy server.

4) A last item is if the browser still doesn't work, you may need to re-install it.

5) Last, you never mentioned which os you have. XP has an excellent network diagnostic tool for example. And vista has a typical useless, "we hide it all from you" M$ preferred tool. The latter will fix it if it can, but if it doesn't know, and because the tool is no way heuristic, you will be left in the same state with no understanding of the problem. But you will have some red and green lights.
 
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I don't even use IE, but I've had it switch to Work in Offline Mode (in the File menu) seemingly at random before; that'll give you all sorts of stupid issues with other net-related programs, and give you Page Cannot Be Displayed in browser, and is pretty dang easy to fix by just clicking it back off.
 
Sweet!

Thanks everyone for your replies. Branflakes, I don't know anything about computers or anything, all I know is my internet was working fine for Firefox. When I tried to open SoD and run the patcher, it said it couldn't connect, make sure i could connect to SoD through IE, and I couldn't.

Boehm you are my hero! I went through the first steps you listed, and I didn't really know what it meant, but I was doing it haha. When I found the host that you wanted me to look at, I paniced as the file was 192 pages long of entries. Don't know if that's good or bad. What finally fixed it was unchecking the use proxy box. I have no idea how that got checked. I don't even use internet explorer to have opened it to check it myself. The important thing is I can log on now. Thanks so much for your help!
 
Jojober said:
When I found the host that you wanted me to look at, I paniced as the file was 192 pages long of entries. Don't know if that's good or bad.
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Well it can be either. Ad and url blocking software will add urls to the file in order to create what amounts to a computationally cheap block list. Malicious programs might also add lines that direct you to a spoof site.

If you want you can save the hosts file to something like hosts.bak, then replace it with a new hosts file cut n pasted from the first italicized example I gave. Thats the entirety of a default hosts file from the vendor. Make sure to paste it into a text editor like notepad or edit, and save as hosts. Saving it into word or wordpad will be bad.

Then you should probably run whatever ad block software you have so it can "immunize" your machine again from those known malicious re-directs. If you have any problems, you can always revert the hosts.bak file to hosts.
 
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