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I mentioned this a while back. When I changed over my router/high speed modem at home a while ago (several months) I have been unable to resolve the site. Recently I decided to see what might be causing it with a simple text browser. When I call up the site part of the site is resolved but then a bunch of porn urls jump into the mix and the site hangs there. I think somehow the dns is being piggybacked by some bot or something.
I would like to get the site at home but I can live without it too as everywhere else I use a computer can resolve the site. BTW it is not "fixable" from my end. I have tried as has my ISP. It is also not localized to CPG I have the same problem with ComicLink, for example.
I don't know if you can or care to take a look at it but since I found out a bit more about why it is hanging I thought you might want to know.
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What me worry? well yeah, a little.
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| Ox, its sound to me as if a virus or worm of some sort has rewritten your LMHOSTS file so that all the sites you want to go to, go to another site instead. You might try a virus scanner, adaware or something else that might locate the trouble. This is just a guess though, without looking at the file I cannot be sure.
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But Ox uses a Mac. They don't get viruses.
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| A MAC must have some kind of hosts file that tells the browser whether the domain is hosted on his computer or not. If the hosts file is overwritten, then Brian's theory could be right whether it's a MAC or not. All it takes is untrustworthy software being allowed to run whether that is considered a trojan or not. defiant1
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So you you are saying all three of my computers have this same "virus"? I will check all my files but this doesn't seem likely to me.
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| Do a search on your hard drive if that's possible with a Mac. Take a porn site name that has popped up and search for that text string on all your files. If something pops up, look at the date it was created. Search your hard drive for anything created on that date. There are different ways to approach the problem, but if you can pinpoint a program that was installed on that date you can take that to google and see if anyone else has reported it as a problem. There is a windows virus so advanced that it does a virus scan of the computer before it drops it's payload. Then it infects the computer and turns it into a bot that emails spam to others. It was mailing all those stock emails out to people. It originated in Russia. defiant1
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It is definitely NOT on my end. Even using one of the free proxy servers out there the site is unreachable. I am going through a proxy server right now that is getting me on here from home so that is what I will use right now.
I had a long talk with my ISP they checked my router, its, settings and logs and there is zero sign of any breaches. Further he said it was virtually impossible that three computer that I have would all be compromised in the same way. Especially seeing as two are OS X boxes and one is a linux all with their own firewalls up and browsers armed with ad and script blockers.
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Could be a nameserver issue if you are just unable to link. Wow... lightning bolt was very close.... um..
The reason I was agreeing with Bryan was you said it was sending you to porn sites.
When you type a domain name... your browser looks on your computer first to see if you are hosting it. If a virus has written over your host file, it could be taking those requests and routing you to another site. If not (this is how I understand it)... it checks a local nameserver to map the domain name to an IP address. . If that nameserver can't find it, it goes a step higher and looks at a higher level nameserver. If that can't find it it keeps going up until it's routed to one that does. It's possible for one whole region to be blocked out if there is a problem in the chain.
Since your computer is looking for an IP #, You can just enter the IP address directly if you want to test it.
This link gets me to the boards with no problem.
http://206.246.150.4/boards/
If it works for you it might be a nameserver issue. Your IP could be blocked somewhere in the chain also I assume.
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