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dnschanger infection?

racer · 2009-03-16T01:52:30+00:00

Hello, I am not all that computer savy, but here you go.. For a few days now I have noticed that my internet explorer has been a little slow, now it throws me to different search engines when i try to click a link. also says it has syntax errors. my anti virus program won't update (invalid server or proxy settings) my windows update wont work (80244019) my system restore wont work ( system restore did not change my settings, unexpected error occured) I tried to install malware remover but it wont run Itried to install spy docter but it wont update so it can run you guys are my last hope, I'm so afraid they got my credit card # from purchases i made yesterday.....PLEASE HELP here is the info from hjthis...... Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 9:30:02 PM, on 3/15/2009 Platform: Windows Vista SP1 (WinNT 6.00.1905) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6001.18000) Boot mode: Normal Running processes: C:\Windows\system32\taskeng.exe C:\Windows\system32\Dwm.exe C:\Windows\

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racer

March 17, 2009, 11:32 PM UTC

And when hjt is started I get immediate flag that says some thing like....

system denied write access to host files, my need to be fixed manually

dan12 MRU Honors Grad Emeritus

March 18, 2009, 12:05 AM UTC

Try any of these

here or here.
Disable any script blocker, and then double click dds.scr to run the tool.

racer

March 20, 2009, 7:31 PM UTC

Dan, After my last post I continued to get host errors an then dhcp stopped working I lost all availability to contact you
so I had no choice but to back up what I could and do a clean install of vista. I thank you for your time and effort
I think all is well now.

dan12 MRU Honors Grad Emeritus

March 20, 2009, 10:58 PM UTC

Thanks for letting me know.
Good luck

Gary R Administrator

March 21, 2009, 3:05 PM UTC

As your problems appear to have been resolved,

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