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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Website issue - Solved!
« on: June 22, 2015, 06:06:04 am »
Hi - first post 
A few days ago a Microsoft tech ran the tweaking.com software on my Win 7 desktop.
With that result I have found that network discovery was turned off. I can only think it was done with this scan. Not a big deal, I turned it back on and that works ok....... but.....
As near as I can tell right after this tweaking.com scan I lost the connection to one and only one website. (weird) At least I have only found one. Initially I wrote it off to a website issue but after time, looked into it in more depth. That's why I am not 100% certain on the timing of the connectivity loss but it seems to have taken place in this time frame. The rest of the internet seems to work just fine. This website has been working and visited frequently for a long time. The site is www.theprofilebrotherhood.com
I cannot access this website from Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari or IE running on my desktop. I have checked the host file and it's clean. Checked Internet restricted sites and that has no entries. I have turned off all antivirus programs and turned off Windows firewall. Still no joy. Also have done a ipconfig /flushdns in cmd as admin with reboot.
I ran malwarebytes, Panda, Superantispyware, MS security essentials and cleaned whatever they found. Just standard cookie finds really. Also ran Malwarebytes rootkit program with no results.
I can successfully ping the website in question via IP and domain. If I enter their IP in the browser address bar it will time out the same as trying their domain name.
I can access this website from my laptop on the same network, AND if I run virtual box on my desktop in question using a Win 10 or Linux VM I can access the website without issue.
I have run out of things to check. Any suggestions?
Edit
I searched the registry and only found one instance. See attachment
A few days ago a Microsoft tech ran the tweaking.com software on my Win 7 desktop.
With that result I have found that network discovery was turned off. I can only think it was done with this scan. Not a big deal, I turned it back on and that works ok....... but.....
As near as I can tell right after this tweaking.com scan I lost the connection to one and only one website. (weird) At least I have only found one. Initially I wrote it off to a website issue but after time, looked into it in more depth. That's why I am not 100% certain on the timing of the connectivity loss but it seems to have taken place in this time frame. The rest of the internet seems to work just fine. This website has been working and visited frequently for a long time. The site is www.theprofilebrotherhood.com
I cannot access this website from Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari or IE running on my desktop. I have checked the host file and it's clean. Checked Internet restricted sites and that has no entries. I have turned off all antivirus programs and turned off Windows firewall. Still no joy. Also have done a ipconfig /flushdns in cmd as admin with reboot.
I ran malwarebytes, Panda, Superantispyware, MS security essentials and cleaned whatever they found. Just standard cookie finds really. Also ran Malwarebytes rootkit program with no results.
I can successfully ping the website in question via IP and domain. If I enter their IP in the browser address bar it will time out the same as trying their domain name.
I can access this website from my laptop on the same network, AND if I run virtual box on my desktop in question using a Win 10 or Linux VM I can access the website without issue.
I have run out of things to check. Any suggestions?
Edit
I searched the registry and only found one instance. See attachment