Yes, I can get to Microsoft.com using this URL. However, some of the links (e.g. Downloads) redirect back to www.microsoft.com and still timeout....
Thanks for the help. I did as you suggested. There is no file called hosts in \windows\system32\drivers\etc There are 5 files: Hostsagb,...
My PC was also affected with the start.chm hijack. The option of deleting the contents of start.chm and changing it to read-only worked for me....
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