AndyD Posted December 9, 2004 Share Posted December 9, 2004 causes this? I'm positive my brother keeps getting crap on his pc that does this. At first, I thought it was the router but I don't think it has anything to do with it. I reformatted after trying to remove a bunch of things without success the first time this happened. Everything worked ok for a while after the reformat. Bro then goes and hits some porn sites again and DNS stops working. Does anyone know of a spyware that does this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
realmcoy Posted December 9, 2004 Share Posted December 9, 2004 Dns client on? (services.msc) Are your upstream dns servers (isp) mentioned in your network connection's tcpip properties? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyD Posted December 9, 2004 Author Share Posted December 9, 2004 1. Not sure (bro lives in his own apartment. I'll have to get him to check later today) 2. Yeah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
realmcoy Posted December 9, 2004 Share Posted December 9, 2004 Btw, what makes you think that it's a DNS query issue? Are addresses unresolvable? Is there anything else wrong with the connection? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyD Posted December 13, 2004 Author Share Posted December 13, 2004 I bumping this up again as I finally was able to get to my bros pc. I'm not so sure if its spyware anymore. I know it's a DNS issue as I have no problems connecting to sites/ftps with the IP address. It's name resolution that seems to not work. I usually set the DNS address on the NIC with Routers IP. Works at home but for some reason it refuses to work on my bro. I could have sworn I switched the addys to the DNS server addys to see if that helps. Anyway, switching it now to those addys gets DNS working again. Am I not supposed to be using the router's ip for DNS ip in the NICs setting? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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