Hi! I hope someone can help me. I can't get into my msn account, order anything online or get into my bank account. Is this a virus? I have norton and a while back something showed up as an e-mail error and I had to reinstall my norton. I keep getting "This page is not available" when I try to get into these accounts. It also says DNS error. I have checked my security settings and they are fine. I am ready to toss my computer!!
It's possible that your ISP's DNS server(s) are down.
But just in case it's something else...
Ok, let's try this as a temporary work around:
First, contact your ISP, and have them give you the IP addresses for their DNS servers. I have bellsouth and they gladly provided theirs for me. You'll need to get at least two.
Next, we're going to enter the DNS server(s) IP addresses manually, so our internet connection doesn't have to try and obtain them automatically. This will sometimes help with problems like this one.
To enter the IP Address Manually:
"Start | Control Panel | Network and Internet Connections | Network Connections"
Right-click on the icon that represents your internet connection.
Select "Properties".
Click on "Internet protocols (TCP/IP)"
Click "Properties".
On the "General" tab, click "Use the following DNS server addresses".
Enter each IP Address, and make sure they are correct.
Click "Ok".
Click "Ok".
Now, reboot your computer and try your browser again.
To reverse that process, just follow the steps down to "Use the following DNS server addresses", but instead, click "Obtain DNS server address automatically".
Well, I tried doing what you suggested and it didn't work:smileysad:. I don't know that much about computers and it gets very frustrating. Thanks for your help!!
I just wondered if you were going to send the personal message. I'll wait to hear from you before I have someone come here to fix the problem. Have a great day!
I was wondered what had happed? I sent it the same time I posted a reply. I'll send it again. I still have it in my outbox as being 'unread'. Do you know how to check for private messages while on the Dell forums?
Let's see what's running on your system. Maybe adware/spyware is causing the problem:
Download and run HiJackThis version 1.98.2, click "Scan", then "Save log". Copy/paste the text that comes up, and post it back to this thread. Don't try and 'fix' anything, most of what it finds is good.
Here you go Mike, thanks for all your help!! I had downloaden the wrong one. I have MSN Mess. but like I said before, I can't get in until this problem is fixed.
There quite a few baddies in there, but before we get started getting some of that stuff off, could you post back any "
Add/Remove programs" entry(s) that your not familar with, like:
WinTools
anyhing with the word '
search' in it.
Bargain-Buddy
Acup
Ikena
Bargain Buddy
Transponder
CashBack (stuff like that.)
We'll try and remove those problems from there first, before we move on to using
HiJackThis. That way, that garbage shouldn't be left all over the place, including your pc's registry.
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Posted October 23rd, 2004 16:00