I am running XP Pro and have PC admin and Domain admin rights. I was troubleshooting permissions problems on a business application and discovered that my network PC rights had changed from administrator to Debugging user. I did not change it and no one else has access to my PC. After changing it back to administrator and logging off/on, I discovered that I could not PING the network server by name (nor other PCs on the LAN) … but I could PING by IP address. When I ping a computer by name, a strange IP address displays “69.46.226.163” before the PING times out. When I entered this IP address on my browser, it came up with what appears to be a shopping website. Whois resulted in memphislending.com. I also discovered in my network connections a new Internet Gateway connection (connected) which I managed to deleted. I’ve re-booted by PC but I still can’t ping local PC’s by name and I still see the 69.46.226.163 IP address. I suspect that I’ve been hijacked, though my Symantec scan and Spybot S&D are clean. Any ideas as to how to pursue? Thanks in advance
