[gundlion]

Running XP SP1, both IE & Firefox return a "cannot open webpage" error on sites such as paypal, amazon, ebay, grisoft and others. No problem opening many other sites including yahoo, google, cnn, microsoft, mozilla.

Followed the malware instructions and ran AdAware, Spybot, CleanUp, NAV and other programs with the result of no malware detected.

Someone else posted a similar problem on June 2 but it was due to their ISP. In this case, two other computers at home have no problem accessing these sites so it's not the ISP at fault.

Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

David

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Try posting a HijackThis log over at the forums. Or could it be a firewall or other security programs interfering?

[cassykins]

Try posting a HijackThis log over at the forums. Or could it be a firewall or other security programs interfering?

[gundlion]

The websites are blocked even when all firewalls and security programs are turned off.

I will look into creating the HiJackThis log and posting it.

Thanks,

David

[gundlion]

SUCCESS!

While playing with HiJack This and clicking on the HOSTS file editor, all the websites that are inaccessible were listed there, along with some other anti-virus sites. Deleting them from the HOSTS list in WINDOWS/SYSTEM32/DRIVERS/ETC fixed the problem.

I may never know how those websites got on the HOSTS list but that's not a concern.

Cheers & thanks for the help,

David