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About 3 weeks ago I first saw 'resolving hosts' in Chrome when pages weren't loading, or were taking several minutes to load. The same thing was happening in Firefox and Edge at the same time. At that time a reboot seemed to fix it.
Since then it's happened frequently, every few days. I tried a number of things and at first these sometimes seemed to be working, sometimes with a reboot:
Now I'm encountering 'resolving hosts' almost every single day. Sometimes it happens when I first turn on the PC in the morning. Sometimes in the middle of the day when I'm working, it will suddenly start.
The only thing that now works reliably is typing this in a command window and rebooting:
netsh int ip reset
Can someone please help me get to the root of this problem? I'd never seen it before about 3-3.5 weeks ago.
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I was tormented by this "resolving host" issue in both Chrome and Microsoft Edge for days!
This fixed it immediately and permanently.
Open Malwarebytes.
Click on the gear icon on the upper right (which is to the right of "My account" and to the left of the "?").
Under “Windows Explorer settings” turn off “Add Malwarebytes options to Windows Explorer”
Reboot your PC and the resolving host issue goes away immediately in both browsers!
I was tormented by this "resolving host" issue in both Chrome and Microsoft Edge for days!
This fixed it immediately and permanently.
Open Malwarebytes.
Click on the gear icon on the upper right (which is to the right of "My account" and to the left of the "?").
Under “Windows Explorer settings” turn off “Add Malwarebytes options to Windows Explorer”
Reboot your PC and the resolving host issue goes away immediately in both browsers!
Alas, I have concluded what many have already indicated was the solution: Uninstall Malwarebytes Premium. All of the bizarre OS and Edge behaviors stopped. Besides the resolving hosts issue, my PC immediately started booting faster. Edge started loading faster - much faster. Windows Explorer stopped crashing.
I still have McAfee Complete Protection so my system is relatively safe. Given all the problems with Malwarebytes Premium and the various system behaviors I wonder if Malwarebytes has a memory leak or if Windows 10 still crippled with respect to loading 32 bit applications in lower memory is the issue. Another possibility is that Malwarebytes assembler routine fail to push and pop registers it uses and variably steps on other interrupt calls by other software using the same interrupt. I have seen this before.
Still it saddens me because Malwarebytes used to be a great system protection utility. Now it is its own form of malware.
Completely agree. My entire system, running the updated W10 & Edge, was essentially crippled with the resolving host issue and related slowdowns with loading programs, freezes, etc.
I have an open ticket with the MWB tech desk, which has gone unanswered for a few weeks. Not sure if their disinterest with a brand-killing, PR nightmare is a Covid related, resource deficiency or just market arrogance.
The relevant thread on their service page still states that “there is no solution at this time.” I also completely deleted MWB Premium to restore my sanity, but found that the free, on-demand version will work sucessfully to scrub for questionable actors. I’ve switched exclusively to Chrome with the McAfee extension activated, for some additional, interactive net protection.
Q. Why isn’t this issue bigger news?
You have made several excellent points Andrewde Soiza! I LOVE Malwarebytes and have used it for countless years both in my IT career, as well as at home. Thank you very much for the smart tips! My tip worked for one day, and then it failed the next day after Malwarebytes updated itself. I couldn't even uninstall Malwarebytes, it failed twice! I just reformatted my machine and started fresh with no Malwarebytes! I've opened a ticket with them and have asked them to let me know once it has been resolved so I can reinstall it then. I won't touch it until I hear from others that it has been resolved!
