Why can I not access certain web sites?

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I cannot reach ebay, microsoft, hotmail but can reach most others. I'm connecting from a winxp laptop over wifi with a orinoco card.

I could connect fine with win2k before I upgraded

i have the same freakin' problem. out of the blue, i cannot connect to google and a handfull of other sites. they aren not considered undesireable, and as for them running popups etc, i go to sites that have crap running and block that no problem and still get into them. this is driving me nuts.

i've disabled everything i can, firewall, virus scanner, popup blocker, blah blah blah, reduced IE to it's minimum settings ....same damn thing.

i could use an answer too; i'm frustrated beyond belief.

Sounds like spyware of some sort. Have you run a spyware scan? If not, I highly recommend doing so.

i've run 5 different scanners, bazooka, giant/microsoft antispyware, adaware, spyware blaster..and..something else. :D

i have a funny feeling it was a spyware scanner that changed a setting of which i'm not aware; am very annoyed.

if i ipconfig /flushdns, i can connect to google 1 out of 10 times, and i can also ping google, but none of the other sites. :(

I have the same problem. I cannot access google. So I pinged it and received 100% packet loss. There are other sites, too (including my email at Google, aka gmail.com). It is quite coincidental that this is happening just as Microsoft is launching their search capability. Hmm. In any event, if anyone can help fix this, I would appreciate it. I am not reinstalling the OS or the browser. This is happening on two different computers and on two different browsers (IE and Firefox).Doing that is just extra work and will result in zero benefit. I have also scanned and removed adware/spyware/etc with both Ad-Aware AND Spyware Search and Destroy, so it's not that, either. I need real help. Anyone?

Sometimes spyware infects a system so badly that the winsock files and registry become corrupt when the spyware is removed by adaware. With versions of windows before 2000 (possibly including ME but I'm unsure) the problem can be solved by reinstalling tcp/ip networking protocol. Versions after and including 2k it is impossible to "uninstall" tcp/ip networking for some unknown reason. To fix the problem download "winsockfix". Just search google.

The problem can be correctly diagnosed by the following symptoms:
inability to ping domain names (ie yahoo.com)
ability to ping ip addresses specifically your dns server(CSU Chico DNS is 132.241.66.6)

I to have essentially the same problem, but with a fresh install of WinXP w/ sp2 (twice now). I Cannot reach microsoft.com, windowsupdate, ebay, etc.

If I ping any of these sites, it times out, if i also try ip address of the site it still times out. I have lowered my security settings to lowest possible settings, turned off the XP firewall, checked the hosts file (only localhost entry), ran Spybot S&D (even tho it is a fresh install...found a couple of cookies but other then that, nothing), tried reregistering a few dll's from another forumpost i saw, still nothing.

Seems like alot of people are getting this issue now, and i can see why someone would point to a virus or spyware, but again, this is a fresh out of the box install of xp w/ sp2.

Any other thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
Paul

i have the same problem as above.. i have a fresh install of windows, SP2. and now i cant access ebay signin, hotmail etc. this is nuts. there is NO spyware doing this and i have also run the winsockfix program as listed above. this did NT help. still i have this whacky problem. cant access windows update too.. im using firefox, and IE.. if i goto my laptop in the other room, no problems, just since my reinstall of XP yesterday on my main machine do i have these issues.. i suspect microsoft are doing this to combat piracy?

im having the same problem as well, within the last, oh, 2 days i cannot connect to google, nor check my gmail or msn mail accounts (i can connect and search the web with msn), i can connect to yahoo just fine, and can check mail there as well. i tend to believe that its not a spyware issue as *gasp* not everyone uses winblows. i cannot connect google from my linux box - had to connect via proxy just to search google for the answers, my other computer connects just fine though, which i think is pretty odd.

I have a problem on wanadoo where I can access any site under the sun apart from the one I want - EBAY. Rang Wanadoo, spoke to various people, they just said reduce level of firewall security, which I found a bit worrying. Anyone got any other ideas, before I end up having to take it to the local computer shop for them to sort and rip me off...?

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