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DNS resolution lost in all browsers after Malware removal (Windows Vista)

Asked by OliK in Windows 64-bit, Domain Name Service (DNS), Anti-Spyware

Hello everybody,

since a few days I have a really strange problem with my Desktop computer.
I had some kind of Browser Hijacking going on. Every time I clicked a link in a webpage I got redirected to some porn/spam/whatever site.

I noticed that I (shame on me) had forgotten to install a antivirus tool. So I got Adaware and first tried to remove the malware that obviously was there. It took the whole night, but at the morning it told me it had removed some severe malware.

Since then, me System seems stable, fast, and appears to have no problems, except I can't access any website anymore. As soon as I start Firefox or Internet Explorer it either crashes right away, or it says that it can't connect to the server. Opera never crashes, but can't retrieve any website either.

The interesting thing is: I can ping www.google.com, take the ip address, put it in a browser url field (when it hasn't crashed so far) and there it is! The google website appears. So from my point of view, it could have something to do with dns resolution. But on the other hand, then the ping wouldn't resolve the domain name to the address. When I enter a local web server's IP address, it also works.

Things I've tried so far:

- lspfix
- netsh int ip reset
- netsh winsock reset catalogue
- installed Internet Explorer 8
- reinstalled network card

I don't know what to do at the moment, so if anybody has an idea, I would be very very grateful :)

Thank you in advance,
Oliver
 
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