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Charani  
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 More options Aug 8 2005, 5:22 am
Newsgroups: alt.privacy.spyware
From: Charani <m...@privacy.net>
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 10:22:13 +0100
Local: Mon, Aug 8 2005 5:22 am
Subject: Re: Cannot access certain sites like Google, Hotmail
On 7 Aug 2005 20:36:04 -0700, hierr...@hotmail.com wrote:

> 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?

I've had that problem in the past with Hotmail and not being able to
access one of my accounts from my home PC.  I could access the account
from any other computer and I could access my other Hotmail accounts
from home.  It was just that one.  That went on for about 6 months
before I could again access it from home.  I've no idea why it
happened or why it stopped.  I put it down to Hotmail playing silly so
n so's.  I know a number of other people who have had similar problems
with Hotmail which have suddenly appeared, then disappeared without
them doing anything or changing any settings either before or after.

I've not had any problems with google, although I don't use
google.com.


 
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