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| Thread ID: 53942 | 2005-01-31 20:06:00 | Cannot reach some websites | Atreides (7000) | Press F1 |
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| 319844 | 2005-02-02 02:47:00 | i use good old 98SE :) telstra broadband shouldn't have anything to do with it. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 319845 | 2005-02-02 03:32:00 | I have Win XP Home, use a Hosts file with doubleclick blocked the same as tweak'e and I have no problems accessing sites with all three of my browsers . Things that I would try: Clean out all your temporary internet, temporary and index . dat files . Ccleaner is a good program to do this for you . Clean out the quarantine/backups or whatever in Spybot and Adaware . Reset your firewall (ZoneAlarm?) back to defaults so that it asks you what to allow and disallow . Put the doubleclick entries back in your Hosts file and see what happens . If you are still unable to access websites I would suggest you then uninstall Spybot to see if that changes anything . |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 319846 | 2005-02-02 07:12:00 | I'm using my second computer - old 600MHz (still with XP though) . It has not had the hosts file changed by Spybot S&D, though Spybot, Ad-aware and ZoneAlarm are installed . I added ad . doubleclick . net to the hosts file, and voila, pcworld doesn't work . Remove it again, it works . I have run CCleaner on this computer . I have cleared Spybot's backup files . Still doesn't work . I'll try resetting ZoneAlarm tomorrow . When you load PressF1 in Firefox, do you see "Waiting for ad . doubleclick . net . . . " and "Transferring data from ad . doubleclick . net" in the status bar (bottom-left) at all? |
Atreides (7000) | ||
| 319847 | 2005-02-02 07:37:00 | Spybot doesn't alter your hosts file unless you specifically invoke it and I'm not convinced that that is where your entry came from. Do you have Adblock running in Firefox? That will block the ads using a different list to your hosts file. I can open the PCWorld etc sites with ads using IE with the Spybot hosts file active or without ads using FF and Adblock. Neither show waiting for anything other than the main site URL. | PaulD (232) | ||
| 319848 | 2005-02-02 07:59:00 | The list of blocked entries definitely came from Spybot because at the top and bottom of the list it had comments (#) saying that it was inserted by Spybot S&D. I did specifically invoke Spybot to block those servers. I had forgotten, and I was not familiar with the hosts file at any rate. I do have Firefox blocking ads, but with ad.doubleclick.net in the hosts file IE won't access the particular sites either. Of course your browser won't say it's waiting for ad.doubleclick.net if you have the server as local in the hosts file (if it works). But if you take it out of the hosts file (just comment the line with # temporarily) then do you see the browser wait for and transfer from ad.doubleclick.net? I really don't see what is going on. I'll see if this sort of stuff happens on Dad's computer next time I see him - he's currently off in India at a conference. For Massey. For a month. This computer (my slow one) currently doesn't have antivirus. ( :eek: I know, but I had an old version of Norton which died a month ago, and the trial of Norton Antivirus 2005 I got off a PC World CD crushed my computer a bit. Any recommendations for free antivirus for a slow PC? Maybe AVG? I had Avast Antivirus on this computer before the old Norton a while back, but it was a bit crappy.) Is it really still a problem? I can survive unblocking 2 or 3 ad servers out of a list of hundreds, can't I? None of them would be blocked at all normally anyway. Though I don't seee any ads on PressF1. So what's ad.doubleclick.net actually doing? Any PressF1-administrator sorts of people want to let me in on this one? I dunno. Tomorrow I'll try resetting and/or turning off ZoneAlarm, and turning off Spybot's memory resident blocker. Though that should only be blocking certain processes from running. |
Atreides (7000) | ||
| 319849 | 2005-02-02 08:13:00 | i'm not to sure whats with your setup. normally when the program tries to access doubleclick it gets the 127.0.0.1 ip addy which of course is your own pc, its can't find the site and displays an error message and continues with the rest of the page. i use opera which dosn't display any error message. i know some netscape vers throw up an error message which you had to click to get rid of before it would download the rest of the page. it kinda feals like there is a server sitting on 127.0.0.1. when did all this start? any new software installed around the same time? BTW doubleclick supply the adds you see on pcworld (andother sites). |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 319850 | 2005-02-02 08:20:00 | Nah, it's been having trouble with ad.doubleclick.net stopping sites for ages. maybe a year.. maybe more, maybe less. I didn't connect it with Spybot or the hosts file till a couple of days ago thanks to PressF1 (see above). If ad.doubleclick.net is in the hosts file I don't get any error messages - it just sits there "Waiting for ad.doubleclick.net". In Firefox. In IE it sits just "Waiting..." I've no idea what other software I might have installed a year ago. An awful lot most likely! :rolleyes: Certainly there's been a lot in- and uninstalled since then. |
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