From: "David Blair" 

I did a cut and paste directly from the browser. Of course, I edited the
direct page itself, editing from the host name.

I've had a more pressing problem hit me today- despite my virus and dual
firewall protections, I've gotten hit with either a worm or virus that had
bitten my email.

I've got yet a 3rd anti-virus to run over my machine (it is a problem that
I had at a previous job as well, but there I was more vulnerable because we
have to many fooking idiots who would bring in all manner of crapola and it
would occasionally end up in MY inbasket.) Here, I know when it happened-
and it ticks me off, because the site it came from should have been
secured. Someone has some unpleasant email coming. I watched as my machine
got hit and turned it off, but apparently this  was a residual problem. I'm
running a new antivirus to see what McAfee and Norton missed.

Anyone know what to do with this damned GDOG GDOG GDOG thing?

"John Beckett"  wrote
in message news:3f1668d2.17352050{at}216.144.1.254...
> "David Blair"  wrote in message
> news::
> > Somehow, having the URL in my HOSTS table as usual isn't working.
>
> I guess you're just speaking loosely, and you've put the host name in the
> HOSTS file? First step is to see if you have made a typo. Copy the host
> name from the URL, then go to a command prompt window and type
> ping
> then right-click the command prompt window to paste the host name. Press
> Enter to see if your computer trys to ping the IP that you have in HOSTS
> (you don't care if the pings work or not, you just want to see what IP it
> uses).
>
> Another simple test is to change the IP in your HOSTS and repeat the above
> (you might need 'ipconfig /flushdns' first). This should at least prove
> that your HOSTS is working.
>
> If you are being sent to an IP address, you could try fiddling with your
> routing table. I haven't seen the effect on a browser, but it should work.
> Say the site is 11.22.33.44. You could run the following at command
> prompt:
>
> route add 11.22.33.44 mask 255.255.255.255 127.0.01
>
> If this works, it will last until next boot. Put -p after 'route' to make
> the command persistent.
>
> John
>

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