Why can I not access certain web sites?

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I deleted my cookies from Tools/internet options.
Now I can't access my work website or my university student website. I can get to some things through Google but it is much slower than it should be. I don't know if I could have gotten in today before I deleted the cookies. I was able to access everything fine yesterday.

Please help.

Similar problem to everyone else, but with a twist:

The ONLY site I cannot access is Amazon.com. I can access eBay and everything else just fine.

The other twist is that I am on a machine running Windows XP Home and there are two other user accounts on this machine. Both other users CAN access Amazon.com.

So this seems unique to my user account. Even though I tried all the fixes posted here (DNS, MTU, SSL, etc), the fact that two other users on this same machine can access Amazon means that none of the fixes that would affect the entire system can be my problem in any case.

It has to be something unique to my account.

I've applied all of those kind of fixes that I found here (clearing cache, cookies, etc), but still no luck.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

Dear Leo
I cannot access my company's LAN from home. My home computer has windows 98 SE. It asks me for a username, password and domain. If I try the same thing from the office it works (even leaving the domain empty).
I have even tried disabling my Zone alarm firewall.

Recently I found that I could not access Amazon.com anymore. Upon further checking I found
that I could not access any Amazon related sites (any partner or Amazon owned sites.) This is
all I am having trouble with so far.
I find it hard to believe that I have done anything on my end to cause all of these to be blocked.
I checked my security and my cookies and nothing is amiss there. Tried all above suggestions.
Do you think it is the IP?
Help!

Hi, i can't access my ebay account. I can go onto ebay.com, but I can't go into my private account. the same is for my hotmail, i can go onto hotmail.com, but not my private account any more, please help.
Donna

this is a funny one

I am connected to internet via ADSL D link router, all is well but occasionally i find access to certain sites(all held on the same server)stops, yet it only stops for me, other people i ask have no trouble. I have to go and find the router and pull the power for a few seconds, then its fine again. Very strange!

I had a similar problem; I suddenly could not access several websites I used all the time, they did not seem to have anything in common and I hadn't done anything funky to my computer. I disabled all my protection one at a time (despite my better judgement) to no avail. I decided it was not my computer but perhaps my router. I turned off my computer, unplugged my cable modem and unplugged my wireless router. After a few seconds, I turned everything back on and the problem was fixed! I hope this helps someone.

I have the identical problem to Jace Greenman - I have not been able to access Amazon.co.uk for months, via my own account, yet I can get into it via my wife's environment with the same ISP and modem. I have Windows XP Home Edition, with fully updated Service Pack 2. I too have tried disabling everything, clearing caches and cookies, etc. etc. I too would really appreciate some help!

I have the same problem, it's been going on for several months now. I have tried everything shown above, as well as a few others. It's my XP laptop, and is the same regardless of wireless lan or dial-up service. When I ping these sites I can't access all say could not find host except one(www.telus.net, it come back successful), but I still cannot access it. The others are www.telus.com, www.futureshop.ca,and a number of sites within www.uvic.ca. I set my MTU to 576(apparently optimum for dial-up). I can't help but think this is virus related, as it all sort of happened around the same time. System restore also will not work. Other than this issue all runs well. But the UVic site is important to me, I believe I'm going to have to reformat. Does anyone have any ne answers?

I have found that I can't sign onto ebay, msn, msn messenger paypal, and a couple of other websites like them. I can access yahoo and yahoo messenger. But it seems like 50% of the time I get the message saying page can't be found. What could be the problem?

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