certain websites down?

[Rick]

I have been trying to access Canada Post all day and just now Canadian Tire
with no luck. Anyone else experience this?

[Nobody]

Both fine here.....(downtown SJ)

"Rick" <som...@somewhere.com> wrote in message
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[duende]

On Nov 23, 4:04 pm, "Rick" <some...@somewhere.com> wrote:
> I have been trying to access Canada Post all day and just now Canadian Tire
> with no luck.  Anyone else experience this?

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

[Carter]

Rick wrote:
> I have been trying to access Canada Post all day and just now Canadian
> Tire with no luck. Anyone else experience this?
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No problem with either one here.

Carter

[Rick]

Thanks for the replies. I still can not access either of them on this
computer. Just tried on another computer (should have tried that before
posting...lol) and it works there. Of course now I have to spend time
(probably hours) trying to determine what is going on with this one. I have
tried different browsers. Any ideas?

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[Siobhan Bouzane]

We had the same problem recently (we use Mozilla Firefox as a browser).
We rebooted the modem. It worked fine

[Rick]

I have not tried that yet. Usually the first thing I would try. Must be
asleep at the wheel here. I did try accessing using a proxy. ie:
http://proxify.org and was able to access. Guess I will go reboot the
modem. Thanks.

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[Rick]

Rebooting the modem did not work. I also removed the software
firewall...Comodo...and that did work. I guess I will not be putting that
back on. Can anyone recommend a firewall that will work with Windows 7? I
used to use Zonealarm but that does not work with Windows 7 yet.

[Rick]

Just found out that Windows 7 and probably Vista has outbound firewall
protection as inbound. The outbound protection is disabled by default. I
now have it enabled. The only thing is "Rules" have to be set for whatever
software is required for internet access. Not a problem though and it took
about 5 minutes to set the rules for the 6 pieces of software that I
actually want to allow outbound connections for. From what I have read
online the firewalls in Vista and Live are much much better than what is in
XP. Suppose one could take that with a grain of salt though.

[Rick]

last post on this...

The software "Windows 7 Firewall Control" allows much easier setup in that
it allows the setting of "Rules" to be automated whenever a specific
software is attempting internet access. That way you can enable or disable
individual programs from having internet access much like you would with a
third party software firewall.

[Rick]

ok...now last post...lol

http://www.sphinx-soft.com/Vista/order.html

The free version....and yes it works with Windows 7 and Vista.

[Cornerguy]

"Rick" <som...@somewhere.com> wrote in message

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ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 2010 9.1.008 does have
Windows 7 listed as an acceptable operating system.
Check download.com
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[duende]

On Nov 23, 8:34 pm, "Cornerguy" <rso-l...@myamail.com> wrote:
> "Rick" <some...@somewhere.com> wrote in message

I don't understand how people can use computers these days with all
the crap you put on them. When I get laptops in for repair, they're
dog slow with the antivirus programs and firewall programs, and this
and that.