OS issue

24giovanni · Post by **24giovanni** » Mon Aug 30, 2010 9:58 pm

On my win 7 system, I am having troubles getting to the internet. I rebooted my modem, router and PC. All connections are tightly fitted. In event viewer, I see a message of "there was an error while attempting to read the local hosts file.

Also, it seems to me outpost is blocking it as well. What could cause this? I am posting this from vista which is hosted on this PC as well.

Any help is appreciated.

thx

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Mon Aug 30, 2010 10:42 pm

Well what was the last thing you did before the internet stopped working on it?

24giovanni · Post by **24giovanni** » Mon Aug 30, 2010 10:53 pm

It seems to be ok now on vista is it is connecting to every site without probs. I will try on 7 tomorrow.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 12:24 am

Well if you have two different OS on the same computer and one works then you've already narrowed it down to software issues not hardware...so look at drivers, software you've loaded, spyware...etc

TonyT · Post by **TonyT** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 7:45 am

I see a message of "there was an error while attempting to read the local hosts file.

It should not be reading the HOSTS file unless there are valid entries in it, or the HOSTS file is a locked file by some malware.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 7:51 am

Agreed..something is molesting the hosts file...either an anti-ad/spyware program (or remnant of), or malware.

24giovanni · Post by **24giovanni** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 10:25 am

Thats what what I thought as well tony and Cat. All is working ok now. I did a malwarebytes scan last night and came up clean. My pc is working fine now from win 7. I assume it was an ISP provider issue since all is well now.

Thx for helping.

TonyT · Post by **TonyT** » Wed Sep 01, 2010 8:24 am

24giovanni wrote:Thats what what I thought as well tony and Cat. All is working ok now. I did a malwarebytes scan last night and came up clean. My pc is working fine now from win 7. I assume it was an ISP provider issue since all is well now.

Thx for helping.

Have you actually looked at the HOSTS file?
windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts