Re: Is There a Virus that Breaks DNS?
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Re: Is There a Virus that Breaks DNS?

From: ABC <simonbray@nospamemail.afraid.org>
Date: Wed Aug 24 2005 - 17:02:53 CEST




"Shneor" <shneor@my-deja.com> wrote in message 


news:1124894783.469963.208660@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...


> Hi,


> I appear to have lost DNS functionality on my W2K box. No problem to


> get to a URL (e.g., 121.230.140.99), but dns does not work. A linux box


> on the same oruter has no problem whatsoever. It just quit last night -


> worked at 7 p.m., but not at 9:15. Did an ipconfig release tne  a


> renew, no improvement. Rebooted, still no improvement.


>


> Could this be the result of a virus?


>


> Please respond here.


>


> Thx,


> Shneor


>


Could be that your hosts file has been compromised. Also, you could set the 


DNS settings in the box to be the IP address of the router, thus making the 


router the DNS server.


Received on Thu Sep 29 20:03:50 2005