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Blocking a website, using WinXP

Bateluer

Bateluer

Lifer
This is proving mind boggling. My mom's computer cannot access her bank's website. This occurs in IE6, IE7, and Firefox. She's running WinXP, and I checked the HOSTS files to see if the site was blocked there, it wasn't. To the best of my knowledge, she doesn't have any filtering software installed, and claims this has occurred since the computer was set up.

Every other machine in the house can access the bank's site just fine.

What other methods in windows could one use to block a single website?
 
sounds like sone spyware trying to hijack it and some security trying to block it. Scan system for spyware and trojans
 
Originally posted by: Bateluer
This is proving mind boggling. My mom's computer cannot access her bank's website. This occurs in IE6, IE7, and Firefox. She's running WinXP, and I checked the HOSTS files to see if the site was blocked there, it wasn't. To the best of my knowledge, she doesn't have any filtering software installed, and claims this has occurred since the computer was set up.

Every other machine in the house can access the bank's site just fine.

What other methods in windows could one use to block a single website?
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Can't access it at all, or can't access SSL pages?
 
Before you make any changes reboot to safe mode with networking to see if you can login to secure sites.
 
The system has been scanned repeatedly with both Adware and Windows Defender, its clean in that department.

I have not yet tried pinging the IP address of the website, I'll check on that in a moment. And I'll try the WinsockXP fix program too.

Edit - Her system can't ping either the URL or IP address. The site is www.huntington.com. Everytime she tries to access it, she gets the 'Can't find website' page in the respective browser.
 
Originally posted by: Bateluer
The system has been scanned repeatedly with both Adware and Windows Defender, its clean in that department.
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How about by an antivirus product? What are the IP addresses of the DNS servers it's using (Start > Run > cmd > ipconfig /all)?
 
Hmm, I seem to have fixed it. Something with the Nvidia network drivers for the NF3 chipset. When I uninstalled the old network manager in order to install the latest version, it made me reboot. When it rebooted, I tried it again and it worked. Not even gonna bother installing the latest network manager software if everything is working fine.
 
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