I think that's a variant of winfixer .... verify via IPCONFIG -all that ONLY
your preferred DNS is in play...  and I'd boot from a secondary instance of
the OS (or a boot CD) and *then* scan for malware and rootkits

  _____  

From: Durf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 2:26 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: "Vista Antivirus 2008" malware removal


Hey guys;

I was called in to look over another tech's customer who had a system where
they had (mostly) removed the "Vista Antivirus 2008" fake AV malware.   The
only issue still remaining was what we thought at first was a simple browser
redirection issue - visting a huge number of security-related sites resulted
in a 404.

Well, it wasn't a BHO, and it wasn't a redirect, and it's not a HOSTS file.
It's something screwed in the TCP/IP stack.  NSLOOKUP returns the proper DNS
result for a site, but when you send any traffic to it at all - ping, let's
say - it's redirected to localhost.  

Anyone seen this before and fixed it by means other than burning down the
system, which is what I'm going to recommend otherwise? 

-- Durf

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