Unable to view webpage

[jphilbert]

Unable to view website at home. There is one website that I am unable to view. I can, however view the page at work and my friends can also see the website at their homes. I am able to ping without any losses and I can see all subdomains pages on the site. But anything that points to the domain I am unable to see.


I have used IE and Mozilla, both with the same result. I am running WindowsXP SP2, I get a page cannot be displayed error from IE6 and mozilla usually gives me a blank screen or a popup error. I have reset browser settings, cleaned the cookies, cache and history, disabled and then uninstalled NIS 2005, and tried running winsock fix.


There is another user profile on the computer and it also cannot access the website. I know its a problem on my end but I just can't figure it out. Any help or suggestion is appreciated.

 

[mkrausnick]

You probably already thought of this, but is the site on your restricted sites list for some reason?
start->settings->control panel->internet options->security->restricted sites

Mike Krausnick
Dublin, California

 

[jphilbert]

Mike I did look into that, and it is not listed under restricted sites.

 

[jphilbert]

I actually need to edit my first post.
The error that I actually get from IE6 is

"Page cannot be found

 

[Leenie]

I am also having a similiar problem where I can access a site from Netscape, but not IE. Other people in the organization can access the site from both browsers. Only the one pc is having the IE problem.

Colleen Gayle Lane
Milton Public Library

 

[jphilbert]

My issue has been resolved. I would like to let you know what I did, maybe it will fix your issue too.

I still don't know which program on my system caused the issue, it is more than likely been either the anti-virus or anti-spyware software. I did a search for the HOSTS file on my system and lo and behold there were tons of websites listed. This file restricts what websites your browser is allowed to view to help prevent unwanted websites from accessing your system. This file is listed in the following locations respectively.

Windows XP = C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC
Windows 2K = C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC
Win 98\ME = C:\WINDOWS

By removing the websites from this list I was able to access them. Hopefully this resolves someone else issue as well.

 

[Leenie]

I was so hopeful that your fix would also be mine, but there were no websites listed in the hosts file whatsoever. Thanks anyway.

Colleen Gayle Lane
Milton Public Library