I’ve win2000 with SP3. It also have AD, DNS, SQL 2000 & other things.
Im using it for long for my normal work. But for the past few weeks Im facing soe problem with it.
The problem is antivirus & soe other sites are not browsing when I connectto internet & try to access those sites. Instead as soon as I click Go button in IE, it checks those sites onloopback address 127.0.0.1
To identify I even reinstalled DNS but the problem was there. On further investigation I found that in the local DNS cache those sites are added for loopback address. I foun this using IPCONFIG /DISPLAYDNS command in command prompt.
see one entry for example:
antivirus.com.
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Record Name . . . . . : antivirus.com
Record Type . . . . . : 1
Time To Live . . . . : 31530531
Data Length . . . . . : 4
Section . . . . . . . : Answer
A (Host) Record . . . :
127.0.0.1
There are several entries like that.
Even flushing DNS cahce using IPCONFIG /FLUSHDNS didn’t work.
May be there is some trojan / virus , but even Symantec AV & PestPatrol 4 shows no definite signs.
Any idea?