Internet problem I've never seen before: Help.

In My Humble Opinion
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so, for some reason when I’m using Netscape(4.76) or Internet Explorer(5.5) I cannot get to certain websites.

I checked from other computers in the house as we are all on the same network and they could get to all the local sites that I needed to see, but I can’t get to them from my computer.

I thought my winsock.dll might be corrupted, so I backed that up and copied the file from one of the computers in the house that work. Still the same problem.

Now I’m downloading Netscape again and uninstalling IE 5.5

I don’t know if this will handle the problem. Anyone heard of not being able to get to selective websites?

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Happens to me at work all the time. For the first 2 weeks that I worked here it wouldn’t let access this page, and then one day poof, SD! Also sometimes I can sites that someone else can’t at their desk. I’m not sure the company has a firewall or not, so I’m not sure how to explain it.

I have no advice for you, just thought I’d let you know that it’s happened to others.

3

Dump your cache. Usually fixes it

4

Tried that. Nada. Still have the problem.

Just did a virus scan. No virii.

BTB, I’m running Windows 98 SE.

5

Ok…Try this. go into your network properties, and enable wins. apply, and then disable it. it will reload the TCP/IP settings and it often fixes wierd problems. I use to use this all the time when I worked for an ISP.

6

Someone probably set the security level of the browsers so you can’t see those sites.
controlpanel:internet options: security also see ‘advanced’

7

Nope. No one has access to my PC. And my security options were fine.

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Um, not knowing anything about your setup: can you ping the sites you can’t access? If no, then its your network settings, if yes then its your IE/Netscape. If it’s your network settings maybe it’s a DNS thing. Are you using a proxy from your ISP? Try turning that off.

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What are the sites? If the have anything to do with antivirus, there’s a chance it is a virus. I just dealt with a problem like that here. How recently did you update your antivirus software?

One possible test: Go to the DOS prompt and run “Netstat -a”. It should give you a list of ports running. If it doesn’t run at all, you have a virus problem. If it does run, see which ports are active. Any numbers above 1024 should be viewed with suspicion. You can find a list of ports used to known Trojans at http://www.simovits.com.