Internet not working yet network is connected.

I tried to look at the HOSTS file and got this... Is this any help?
Forgive me but I have no idea what I'm doing...

Thank you for clarifying the safe mode with networking stuff.
So - your settings stay normal, but no internet in that mode.

Fewer things are running in the safe mode. Whatever is changing this DNS setting to 127.... is not running in that mode or it is aware that the computer is in the safe mode and opts not to change the DNS IP. I would have thought that the clean boot process would have come close to doing what the safe mode does.


The HOSTS file looks fine. It looks like the default one and it is doing nothing. All lines are commented out.


A few posts back, Layback Bear mentioned "Iobit Advanced System Care and their other programs." Do you recall ever having installed anything from that company?

UsernameIssues said:

Thank you for clarifying the safe mode with networking stuff.
So - your settings stay normal, but no internet in that mode.

Fewer things are running in the safe mode. Whatever is changing this DNS setting to 127.... is not running in that mode or it is aware that the computer is in the safe mode and opts not to change the DNS IP. I would have thought that the clean boot process would have come close to doing what the safe mode does.


The HOSTS file looks fine. It looks like the default one and it is doing nothing. All lines are commented out.


A few posts back, Layback Bear mentioned "Iobit Advanced System Care and their other programs." Do you recall ever having installed anything from that company?

I don't think I have no, oh and the internet does work in safe mode with networking.
TBH I think I will call the PC doctor tomorrow to see if they can figure out the problem and how to fix it.

Thanks for all the help though, I really apriciate it :)

I've fixed it!!!! :) I looked in my installed programs and saw that there was a program that I was unfamilier with that I had apparently installed around the time the problem occurred. I just uninstalled it and now the DNS settings aren't changing WOOP!

Layback Bear said:

Come on Matt tell us what the programs you remove was.

The program was called "PenWes", no idea what it was and i can't remember installing it.

Everything you need to know about PenWes

Yes it protects you by jamming the host file IP into the static DNS settings?

It say's it can't install without consent. Pretty useless program I'd say.