Facebook redirects

[RonNYC]

I get this every now and then, just with Facebook, no other web site. I use Chrome. Just now I tried to go to Facebook and was directed to Stock Market

Not sure what this is. I've found that clearing temp data doesn't help. I use:


ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew


and that works. A lot of the time I get to some site on akamai.net but this time it was that financial site. And Chrome didn't say I was being redirected. facebook.com evalutated to that site.

Any ideas why this happens? I know others on here have reported similar issues.

RON

 

[Neutron16]

Check screenshot in attachment.
This is what your HOSTS file should look like (All lines should start with #).
Like that or totally blank. Malware loves to force redirections through this file.

Please post it's content.
To open it, use instructions from here.

 

[RonNYC]

# Copyright (c) 1993-2009 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host

# localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself.
# 127.0.0.1 localhost
# ::1 localhost
#

 

[RonNYC]

What I don't understand is how this behavior is entirely limited to Facebook. No other site.

 

[Dwarf]

Are you still having problems? Try using the IP address instead, 69.171.229.11

 

[RonNYC]

The problems come and go. If I do the ipconfig /flushall thing it's OK, but why does this happen? And just with FB, nothing else.