Re: Can't connect to seversal websites

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From: Microsoft Preferred Customer (Microsoft.Preferred.Customer_at_msnews.com)
Date: 06/20/04 

Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2004 23:59:59 +0100

Have you installed any MS hotfix file or have you updated your windows XP
recently? If so then it is a good idea to rollback or to go back to previous
good state. You do this by going to:

START, ALL PROGRAMS, ACCESSORIES, SYSTEM TOOLS, SYSTEM RESTORE

Then you need to put back to whenever you were last able to logon to your secure
website.

If this works then you may need to download a patch from MS website to correct
problems logging onto secure sites.

Let us know if this works.

Jeff wrote:

> I need some help. I've tried on Anadtech forums, but so far I haven't had
> any luck.
>
> I don't know why, but for the past two days I've been unable to connect to
> my Yahoo personal page, or to my Juno, Netzero or Excite email account start
> pages. I can connect to any other sites though.
>
> I've relaxed all of my security settings to their minimums for java,
> scripts, ActiveX, etc. I've made sure cookies were working (and I had the
> cookies from these sites still in my Temp internet folder). I tried turning
> off my software firewall, and made sure I was using my ISPs server and not
> going through a proxy.
>
> I've run traceroute several times on the my.yahoo.com page, and it has
> gotten through quickly in 14 hops. Today it was suggested that I check the
> HOSTS file, but it wasn't the problem. I searched for "Yahoo" and put a #
> before any line with "Yahoo" in it, but I still couldn't connect.
>
> Does anybody else have some suggestions for what I can do next?
>
> Thank you.

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