Fixed
November 11, 2011 at 11:54 am | Posted in Techy stuff | Leave a commentTags: checker, facebook, facebook wont load, google, hosts, it, loading, malware, removal, remove, virus
The ‘facebook won’t load’ problem!
Ok so first I ran all the anti viruses and malware detectors I could think of to clean out the system and make it fresh as a daisy again 
I used:
Malwareby
Hitman Pro
SpyBot S&D
After that I could run MS Security Essentials again for one final deep clean.
Solution came to me in a flash of light!
I remembered a file that I used when I was messing around with iTunes a while ago and also used the same file for messing with netw0rk paths at home.
In location C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc
there is a file called hosts, now every program on windows uses this basic file to determine where to look for information when connecting to the internet. and this was where my problem lay!
the virus had written in it’s own ip and url forwarding code!
simply delete out the code or put a hash before it so it’s not read when the file is.
and TaDa! jobs a good ‘un
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