[TriLUG] what is blocking a website in winxp?

[Carl Crider]

Have you checked the HOSTS file? Also check for a hidden copy of it.
Sounds like a case of xx_ware to me. I second looking at DNS on the
box Vs your laptop. Clean the machine ASAP.



On 4/21/09, James Jones <jc.jones at tuftux.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> A friend of mine has a winxp-home pc with sp-3 installed. Using any of
> 3 browsers, ( opera, IE6, firefox ), she cannot go to one website that
> she used to visit regularly. She receives a timeout. I can hook my
> laptop into her network and using any browser on either winxp or
> ubuntu, I can access the website with no problem.
>
> From her winxp, I can ping the site and do a tracert to the site with
> no problem.
>
> I can disable her norton anti-virus and windows firewall and there is
> no change. There are no entries in restricted areas of ie, no entries
> in hosts file.
>
> I have even tried to use the system restore, but system restore is
> always incomplete -- no changes.
>
> What am I missing?
>
> The website is http://www.healthjobsusa.com  ( she is looking for a
> nursing job and needs to connect ).
>
> If I don't have a solution soon, I guess I can always install ubuntu
> as a dual boot so she can get to the site --
>
>
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