I just got owned by the Internet

[bl00dsh0t]

This may sound a bit newbie but all of the sudden I can't access my school's website, but can access any other website I try. I've tried clearing cookies, temp internet files, and the University site loads fine on other people's computers. I'm using IE but I installed Opera and it does the same thing. I have removed all spyware too. Anyone ever had something like this happen?

 

[MichaelD]

Actually, being that you're on campus, you got owned by the INTRANET. Not the Internet.

 

[bl00dsh0t]

Originally posted by: MichaelD
Actually, being that you're on campus, you got owned by the INTRANET. Not the Internet.

im not living on campus, and the problem started before i moved here. i've heard others having the same problem with other university sites, some guy formatted to solve it

 

[hjo3]

Have you checked your HOSTS file?

 

[MrDudeMan]

just a shot but try control+f5 to do a force refresh...

 

[mechBgon]

What's the site's URL?

 

[DaveSimmons]

Every try asking the university tech support people?

 

[cubanx]

Originally posted by: bl00dsh0t
This may sound a bit newbie but all of the sudden I can't access my school's website, but can access any other website I try. I've tried clearing cookies, temp internet files, and the University site loads fine on other people's computers. I'm using IE but I installed Opera and it does the same thing. I have removed all spyware too. Anyone ever had something like this happen?

I've seen this when a ISP is having DNS issues. Have you tried using the sites IP Address instead of it's URL?

 

[Sid59]

we need the URL to help.

 

[bl00dsh0t]

www.ttu.edu is the site, i tried control+f5 but just gave me a blank screen instead of a "page cannot be displayed". i might have to call their tech people today.

*edit* How do i check my HOSTS file? and get the IP for the site instead of url? i just tried to ping it and it timed out all four times.

 

[mechBgon]

You say you "removed all spyware." Did you have some bad spyware, or just the usual tracking cookies and stuff?

 

[mechBgon]

You can find your HOSTS file by searching your Windows directory for a file called HOSTS (for Win2000 it's C:\WINNT\System32\Drivers\Etc and the file is simply called HOSTS, open it with Notepad). Post the contents for us and let's see what it's got

 

[bl00dsh0t]

Originally posted by: mechBgon
You say you "removed all spyware." Did you have some bad spyware, or just the usual tracking cookies and stuff?

i just had the normal tracking cookies and that "possible browser hijack attempt" which i have had for a long time, before this started happening.

 

[bl00dsh0t]

here are the results of my hosts file:

# Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host

127.0.0.1 localhost

 

[mechBgon]

Your HOSTS file is normal. Since the IP address of the site is 129.118.1.28, you could try adding a line to your HOSTS file so it's like this:

 

[bl00dsh0t]

bump

 

[hjo3]

Does this link work for you?

http://129.118.1.1/

EDIT: NM, apparently you can't to the site via IP.

Hmmm. Here's a wild idea: try starting Windows in safe mode w/ networking and see if you can get to the web site that way. It might work; if it does, it would probably mean some other program (e.g. malware) is blocking your access.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: MichaelD
Actually, being that you're on campus, you got owned by the INTRANET. Not the Internet.

I thought it was said "y0u sux0rs at teh intraweb!!!"

 

[spatrizi]

I had this same problem recently, with two different situations and solutions (after having tried many things suggested by the fine members of this board):

1) on my old rig, i couldn't access http://wsj.com nor the microsoft update site via windows update, but i could access the latter through the link in the IE help menu. after updating IE, i was able to access both sites again.

2) on my new rig, which i just built last week, i wasn't able to access http://wsj.com nor http://belkin.com . it turned out to be the nforce drivers that came with my asus k8n-e deluxe mobo that has the nforce3 250gb chipset. once i uninstalled the drivers, i was able to get to both sites again. sounds random, i know...