New
#31
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...
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?
Boot into safe mode with networking download Malwarebytes and update it by run as administrator and run it.
No virus should be running in safe mode with networking.
Let us know if there are any nasties by posting the log.
Malwarebytes download The free version.
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware - Protect, Detect & Remove Malware From Your PC
EDIT: Backup fisrt your data and current system and data.
Ensure you have backup disks
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!
You are glad i can see, that I am glad the Malwarebytes would have turned up nothing.
I am with Layback bear here and can you mark solved after please.
Have a great day.
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.
A program like PenWes can do something else not what you want can be used by malware processes I imagine best thing you did uninstalling it.