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GraemeD  
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 More options Aug 8 2005, 5:49 am
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From: "GraemeD" <grae...@badexample.invalid>
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 19:49:18 +1000
Local: Mon, Aug 8 2005 5:49 am
Subject: Re: Cannot access certain sites like Google, Hotmail
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<hierr...@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:1123472164.206223.145380@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> 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?

Not too sure about Google but I do know from experience that Hotmail does require Cookies to be fully enabled . Have you perhaps altered your Cookie settings recently
Graeme

 
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