G_girl 0 Posted July 20, 2011 Report Share Posted July 20, 2011 Does anyone know why national geographic has attached itself to localhost permissions and where I can block it individually? I never used their store I only viewed their site a couple times. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sded 0 Posted July 20, 2011 Report Share Posted July 20, 2011 Are you using a HOSTS file in windows/system32/drivers/etc? What does the first entry say? Does the National Geographic address appear somewhere? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
G_girl 0 Posted July 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2011 Are you using a HOSTS file in windows/system32/drivers/etc? What does the first entry say? Does the National Geographic address appear somewhere? No, I checked that, all it has is 127.0.0.1 localhost ::1 localhost I searched the registry too, couldnt find any instances of it. I've cleared my temp files and my flash cookies. Stumped on how to block it or remove it Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Andrew F. 28 Posted July 21, 2011 Report Share Posted July 21, 2011 You can try running nslookup tool and resolving the addresses mentioned in those popups. I think that 127.0.0.1 is what your DNS resolves them to. Best regards, Andrey. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
G_girl 0 Posted July 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2011 Nslookup: DNS request timed out. timeout was 2 seconds. Non-authoritative answer: Name: natgeo.playp.biz Address: 127.0.0.1 Aliases: mobilestore.nationalgeographic.com Thanks, you're right, I don't know what this means or how to block it though. It's something recent and it appears every time a program asks to use localhost. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catprincess 19 Posted July 21, 2011 Report Share Posted July 21, 2011 You could try using something like Ccleaner to clear the DNS Cache (it has an option to do this) and see if it reverts back to reporting "Localhost" as the remote address. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
G_girl 0 Posted July 22, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2011 You could try using something like Ccleaner to clear the DNS Cache (it has an option to do this) and see if it reverts back to reporting "Localhost" as the remote address. I tried ipconfig /flushdns (from the command prompt) it clears my DNS cache, but it doesn't seem to remove it Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Nick 10 Posted July 22, 2011 Report Share Posted July 22, 2011 Just wondering if it could be helpful setting the DNS Client service to "manual" and then try using Ccleaner... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
G_girl 0 Posted July 24, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2011 Just wondering if it could be helpful setting the DNS Client service to "manual" and then try using Ccleaner... Unfortunately didn't work, still trying to figure out what's going on. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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