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Name: codywest
Date: May 3, 2004 at 17:41:31 Pacific
OS: WIN2K sp4
CPU/Ram: 64k RAM
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Anyone care to try this one?

WIN2K SP4…..
I recently cleaned this crashing system of several virus files (housecall.) Things seem back to normal except:

IE (6.0) can only browse in safe mode (w/networking.)
On regular boot, I can ping and browse websites by IP, but not hostname.

I tried eradicating & re-installing IE 6, “forcing” DNS IP’s, Spybot S&D and Adaware.
No Proxy, and I tried turning off Zone Alarm …no other firewalls.

Any thoughts? Thanks in advance!



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Name: Lucid
Date: May 7, 2004 at 16:46:05 Pacific
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If you can't ping host names than it's a DNS issue. Try renaming the machine and also resetting the DNS information (in TCP/IP Properties). And flush the DNS cache from a command prompt with "IPCONFIG /FLUSHDNS". See if any of that helps...


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Response Number 2
Name: codywest
Date: May 9, 2004 at 16:40:04 Pacific
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I tried flushdns, but no result. Today I tried uninstalling & re-installing the networking & I was able to surf....it might be fixed...still not sure what the exact trouble was....


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