Wierd error

[Capm]

I've been plagued with a problem that I can't seem to track down... Whenever I click a link it won't load the link, it'll goto a page load error \"Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at 127.0.0.1.\"

It'll do this on random web pages, yahoo mail does it for my wife on her emails. Sometimes opening the link in new tab works, sometimes it doesn't. I've tried IE, Firefox, hell, I put a fresh copy of Fedora Core 9 with Firefox in another drive and tried it and it still does it.

It seems to happen on Java menus (it prevents me from editing member profiles on our forums cause the link to edit the profile is in a java drop down menu) I'm stumped..

[TechPro]

Hows your \"hosts\" file? Changes in there (could be an over zealous program) or a corrupted hosts file will redirect you like that.

[Ferno]

you've been hit with the brastk.exe malware

it's a right evil bastard too. you have to throw your virus scanner, cwshredder, spybot S&D, ccleaner, malwarebytes anti-malware and hijackthis at it

[Capm]

Even on a fresh install of Fedora?

[fliptw]

well, if you've changed the OS, we can assume its nothing on your machine; thusly we must look upstream for the reason.

how are you hooked up to the internet?

[flip]

First thing I'd check would be dns. Change the servers.

[Grendel]

127.0.0.1 = localhost. For some reason Firefox can't connect to the local machine, maybe to load a 404 form. Sounds like a problem w/ the hosts file or tcp/ip setup.

[Capm]

Even more wierd is now it has stopped doing it....