[TriLUG] what is blocking a website in winxp?

[Neil L. Little]

You can also go to the system admin tools and take a look at the logs.
Most of the time winders (being the POS it is) never tells you any thing but
every once in a (great) while you get lucky.

73,
Neil,WA4AZL

James Jones wrote:
> Ooops,
>
> Trying to tabulate all the suggestions.
>
> Looks like tomorrow will be spent scanning for spyware.
>
> I will tabulate you suggestions and my comments in a better form later tonight.
>
> jcj
>
> On 4/21/09, James Jones <jc.jones at tuftux.com> wrote:
>   
>> Source                  Suggestion      result  other comments
>>  Glenn Hennessee is it spyware?          still to determine ( std )
>>  Glenn Hennessee Can you ping the site   using her pc, I can ping the
>>  site    dns provides correct ip address for the website when pinging –
>>  confirmed ip address by using dig on my linux laptop
>>  Glenn Hennessee telnet to port 80 on the site           std
>>  Sean Leinart    Any differences in the DNS Servers that either system is
>>  using?          std
>>  Neil L. Little  how about a different dns server like opendns or
>>  4.1.1.1         refer to above ping comments
>>  Neil L. Little  .NSLOOKUP
>>  Carl Crider     Have you checked the HOSTS file?        confirmed that hosts file
>>  exists without any additions that may block any site    Also searched the
>>  system for hidden hosts file
>>  Carl Crider     Clean the machine ASAP. I have done several norton scans        Suggestion
>>
>>
>>
>>  On 4/21/09, Carl Crider <c.crider at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  > "nslookup"
>>  >
>>  >
>>  >  On 4/21/09, Neil L. Little <nllittle at embarqmail.com> wrote:
>>  >  > I think you can query the DNS using...LOOKLNS from CMD on a winders machine.
>>  >  > That might not be right. Its been a while.
>>  >  >
>>  >  > Carl Crider wrote:
>>  >  >> 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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