General question 're blocking a web site

I have a pc (belongs to my aunt). She got suckered by an online support scammer. They loaded some software that gave them remote access and you know the rest. I have removed the software cleaned out the registry closed ports on the firewall that didn't need to be open and flushed the dns cashe. There is a particular website that when she tries to go there she gets a message that she can not go to that website. I know that it is her computer because when I use my laptop on her network I can get to the site. I noticed that if I try to do a trace route to that website by the site name tracert replies the site is reachable in one hop and it names the site as www.ammyy.com at127.0.0.1. As part of cleaning up the computer I removed a piece of software that came from ammyy.com. I've searched the registry for reference to that directing ip address. Also looked for a host file.
Anybody have any thoughts where I can look
Thanks
Mal

Hi Mal,
Can you post back with the following.
1. What version of Windows is on your aunt's PC?
2. Have you located the Hosts file and if so, did it look ok?
Regards,
DP-K
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