hjpotter92
The Boy Who Lived
And, also, check settings in gpedit.msc.
Go to, Start> Run...>gpedi.msc
Go to, Start> Run...>gpedi.msc
Get rid of these
O1 - Hosts: 213.175.216.204 google.com www.google.com
O1 - Hosts: 213.175.216.205 mail.google.com
Dude, how do you say that DNS is poisoned ? Data cannot directly jump from India to US, it will go through some routes only.
And I think, windows does update the DNS records after reboot confused [Linux doesn't use a cache by default, but can be configured to do so ]
I had no idea about the hosts file getting hackedI say that because address translation is taking it to a host that isnt affiliated with Google. You can see the host entry which showed up in the hijackthis file got rid of the problem.