[TriLUG] what is blocking a website in winxp?

[Neil L. Little]

Yes, unfortunately Winders suffers from "bit rot" or bit creep". That 
makes it necessary to perform the standard 3 R's of Winders maintenance.
That is, Reformat, Reinstall, Reboot (Not necessarily in that order).

73,
Neil, WA4AZL


James Jones wrote:
> Patrick and all,
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> I have used a guest account on the same box. It provides the same results.
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> Here is my results from today's activities.
> 1. checked for malware with spybot-S&D .. Plenty of "problems" but
> when all problems were removed, the block website still existed as
> blocked.
> 2. Used autoruns, process explorer to find any unusual startups -- none found
> 2. The day before I had inserted a knoppix cd in the machine and
> booted to it. I could reach the website from konqueror within knoppix.
> Based on this, I installed Ubuntu 8.10 on her pc today. THE BLOCKED
> WEBSITE WAS STILL BLOCKED when using firefox on ubuntu.
> Note: I again inserted the knoppix cd and booted to it and COULD
> access the website -- no blocking!!!
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> The internet service provider is road runner and the cable modem/wifi
> router is a Netgear model number cg814wg. I don't see any place in
> it's administration for blocking external ip addresses and no firewall
> on the router.
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> I am nearing the point of blowing winxp away and re-installing,
> something I don't like to do. It means that I haven't found the
> problem.
>
> Perplexed -- jc jones
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> On 4/22/09, Patrick Brewer <patwbrewer at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>  While I would first expect malware, I have had heard of issues similar that are resolved by blowing away the browser config.  A simple test for that would be to create a new user or try to connect from a guest account if one exists on the box.
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