Help resolving host

[emjay]

I'm just running the free version of that software now... Could take a while... 2 objects detected out of 80,000 scanned so far

[emjay]

hmm, you might also want to flush your dns cache, just to be sure.

How? Just assume I don't know how to do any of it there was a time when I was very good at troubleshooting and wanted to go into it - end user support - but I've forgotten most of it

[Aoi Magi]

What OS are you on?

[emjay]

Anyway it's finished. 2 objects found one of which is 'opencandy' which I already knew was bad cos it's the stuff that tries to install whenever you install something from sourceforge or whatever. I'd like to check the creation date on the other one to see if it's recently created. It says pup.optional.installcore... path... icc.dll... mean anything to you?

[emjay]

What OS are you on?

Windows 7 but only till the support runs out in 2020.

[emjay]

Removing them has not made any difference 

[Aoi Magi]

First, in your chrome address bar type
chrome://net-internals/#dns
then hit "clear host cache",
Select "sockets" from the top drop down and clear any socket pools, if any
then close all browsers
Open up your cmd as administrator (start menu -> cmd -> right click and select run as admin)
type: ipconfig /flushdns

[emjay]

thanks iggy... I've just tried internet explorer... haven't used that in years... and it's lightning fast in comparison. So it's definitely a problem with Chrome.

[emjay]

First, in your chrome address bar type
chrome://net-internals/#dns
then hit "clear host cache",
Select "sockets" from the top drop down and clear any socket pools, if any
then close all browsers
Open up your cmd as administrator (start menu -> cmd -> right click and select run as admin)
type:  ipconfig /flushdns

Okay, done that... no joy 

Did it require a reboot after?

[rado84]

Hi guys,

Out of the blue my computer's decided to say "resolving host"

I can't help you with your problem, altough I suppose the others have already done so. But I can tell you this: there's no good antivirus. The BEST antivirus is to create another user for yourself and setup a parental control on it, allowing to be used all the legitimate executables like nvidia/amd control panels, media players, browsers and so on. I've setup parental control on my sister's computer about a year ago and since then I didn't have to reinstall Windows - not even once. The best part is that no malware addons or toolbars can be installed because parental control won't let those executables to be started. A year later her OS runs like freshly installed because of that parental control. And she's what we call a "tech baboon" (meaning she knows computers as good as I speak Martian). I've tried all sorts of AV softwares, firewalls and stuff but the only thing that protects her computer (and my nerves as well) from malware and viruses is parental control. It takes time to add all the legitimate programs but once you do it you'll forget about AV software. Without parental control I used to reinstall her Windows three times a week.