Cant access certain sites

Ho0ligaN · 2009-03-24 16:16:46

Hey guys,
I installed Arch on my laptop yesterday, I connected to the net and was able to browse for a while, but since yesterday night most sites just point themselves to some directnicparking.com I tried clearing cache, reinstalling browsers(opera,firefox) but to no avail. So, today I formatted and reinstalled again but still the problem persists. How do I solve this problem?

ps: this is not an ISP problem as I am able to browse just fine on my desktop

perbh · 2009-03-24 17:12:22

That is _not_ very informative! It fits neatly into the box: "something is wrong - please help"

What about giving us something to 'chew' on ...
- wireless or cabled?
- fixed ip-address or dhcp?

If wireless - have you tried with cabled (and vice versa)
If cabled - what nic?
If dhcp - have you tried fixed addy?

Also - since it worked for a while - what did you do just before it stopped working?

Ho0ligaN · 2009-03-24 17:22:40

Hey, sorry about that.. wired connection to laptop. Static IP(internal network) but the modem recieves a dynamic IP from the ISP

I don't really know when it stopped working fine, even now very few sites work fine, google, wikipedia etc... but most other sites just get redirected to this directnicparking thing..

Mur · 2009-03-24 17:56:47

are you using a router and if you could save a picture of the page you get and post it here that would help

Last edited by Mur (2009-03-24 17:57:34)

Xyne · 2009-03-24 18:12:33

Did you install using the Australian Arch Linux ISO?

perbh · 2009-03-24 20:49:39

I guess you have tried to 'reboot' the modem/router?
I have to do mine every so often ...

Last edited by perbh (2009-03-24 20:51:21)

Ho0ligaN · 2009-03-26 17:21:36

I formatted the whole hard drive and reinstalled again, I am not using australian arch linux ISO, I seemed to have found what the problem is but I donno how to get rid of it

There is a browser.js file in /root/.opera directory which goes like this

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<META http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://www.directnicparking.com/">
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<!-- few commented lines are here -->
</BODY>
</HTML>

I deleted it, but it came back I tried chmod a-rx on it, but it didn't solve the problem. I am at my wit's end here, have installed arch thrice in the last few days, formatted the whole hard drive twice but its not solving the issue

I tried with a different modem/router assuming that it may be causing the problem, but doesn't seem to be the problem

mrunion · 2009-03-26 17:41:04

Are you running as root? Does this happen still in both Firefox and Opera?

whoops · 2009-03-26 18:16:08

Sounds... like... CoolWebSearch... or something? I'm scared - disconnecting from Internet now, someone send me an email when it's over

Did you try if it (whatever it is) "infected" other user accounts? Could hopefully just be a malevolent browser plugin that's installed locally...

Ho0ligaN · 2009-03-27 14:42:16

yeah tried firefox, opera and midori, all affected..and user accounts too

Preycon · 2009-03-27 15:02:20

Some ISP's have stupid 'problems' with DNS and Linux (I don't know why)...

I fix it using OpenDNS:

208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

Try it!

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