Unusual computer issue, reboot fixed but worried more is there.

Phod · Oct 11, 2008

I have Vista and all the latest updates to my knowledge. Running IE.

All of the sudden my computer wouldn't load a browser, so I ran Hijack this and it said it couldn't access the Hosts file. So I checked the hosts file and it had this line in it:

::1 localhost

so I thought that was the problem. But I didn't have administrator privs for some unknown reason. I tried relogging in as admin but that didn't help. I ran notepad as admin and changed hosts back to basic and that was fine but the browser still failed.

My control panel also died completely.

So I finally just rebooted and everything seems okay for now but I'm worried something is here.

Here is my Hijack this file (note that when I run Hijack This even after reboot and fixing host, I think, it still says that Hijack this can not access the Hosts file -- I ran as administator as it suggested and that worked fine but why do I not have administrator already on some of these things?).

DavidGP · Oct 11, 2008

Welcome to Majorgeeks!

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Please follow the instructions in the below link and attach the requested logs when you finish these instructions.

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Unusual computer issue, reboot fixed but worried more is there.

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