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 More options Aug 7 2005, 11:36 pm
Newsgroups: alt.privacy.spyware
From: hierr...@hotmail.com
Date: 7 Aug 2005 20:36:04 -0700
Local: Sun, Aug 7 2005 11:36 pm
Subject: Cannot access certain sites like Google, Hotmail
I've been having this problem for 2 weeks already. I can't access
www.google.com or log into my hotmail on my laptop at home. The
operations timed out. All other computers have no problems, including
the desktop accessible the same router at home. Certain other random
sites are inaccessible too.

I tried pinging www.google.com (which resolves to www.l.google.com at
66.102.7.147) and it failed. Then I tried pinging google.com
(216.239.57.99), and it worked.

I've read that it could be the QHost trojan, but i ran Symantec's
cleaning tool and it said none detected. I've also scanned with Spybot,
Ad-aware, and AVG Anti-Virus, but all were ok. I have ZoneAlarm running
all the time.

It fails on both IE and firefox.

Any clues?


 
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