Checking your Internet Connectivity....

Just in case you ever need to check this, here's a good place to start.

I'm interested, because I read something the other day about malware and how your DNS can be hijacked. So I've been looking at ways to check that and to verify that it is OK. This can explain some of that for you.

You can verify that yours is working OK by sending a ping request to these two addresses shown in the Command Prompt above. If you don't get replies, then you know you're in trouble. If you get replies like mine, then you're OK. But don't take my word for it - read this article I've linked above.

And if you want to verify that IP Address 173.194.33.49 really is Google, then you simply do this:

And if you want the story on your own system's details, you go into Cmd Prompt, as administrator, and at the cursor type: ipconfig /all and press enter, then to find your own IP Address, look down the list for IPv4 Address. That's you. And by the way, that Command Prompt window can be enlarged by dragging the frame if you don't want to do a lot of scrolling. You can change the color of it too. Here's how.......

After you've opened the Command Prompt window, look for the little icon in the upper left end of its title bar, and click on that, and select Properties from the drop-down. Then select the Color tab, and choose whatever you prefer.