IE 8 Weird

[Zonie]

Have you looked at the adapter settings to verify that DNS doesn't point to some rogue server? If you open a command prompt, can you ping either google.com or 173.194.46.21? My guess would be that the machine at some point has been infected with a DNSChanger variant, or one of those bogus search engines that will also redirect your DNS settings. Removal of the malware won't reset DNS settings for the adapter.

Sorry took the day off. I can ping google and get reply. Had already checked settings as the pc is static IP. DNS 1 is gateway and DNS 2 is 4.2.2.2. Really weird.

[slgrieb]

Sorry took the day off. I can ping google and get reply. Had already checked settings as the pc is static IP. DNS 1 is gateway and DNS 2 is 4.2.2.2. Really weird.

I would expect that fixing those settings will solve the issue. All the same, if you haven't already run ComboFix on the machine, I'd do it. It never ceases to amaze me that it will detect and remove so much junk that no other software can find. I did a machine this weekend that both their Norton 360 and MBAM reported as clean, but ComboFix ran for over an hour, and generated a 4 page report of stuff it removed.