Is the internet slowly dying?

[MisterBombastic]

Or is my PC screwed up?

For some reason I haven't been able to access either the United Devices Cancer Research forums, or the Sharky Extreme Hardware site for about a week. These servers haven't gone down before, is it just my PC?

I am running Windows XP (and firewall), and Norton Firewall 2002 on a 56k V.92 modem. I had no problems with these pages previously.

Thanks in advance.

 

[corkyg]

You must have something blocking your access - both of your links popped right up w/o hesitation. I suspect you have too many firewalls running at once. Turn the XP one off - dump Norton's and get a good one.

 

[Fireman]

They popped up fine for me as well. I'm just using a hardware (router) firewall though, no software.

 

[jonmullen]

They worked fine for me. I am just using XP (firewall turned off) and NAT on my router.

 

[MisterBombastic]

Well, it was working previously. I am using Norton as neither ZoneAlarm 3, Sygate, or Zone Alarm 2.6 work sufficiently well for some reason or other. Norton was working perfectly last week. Hmmm....I hate it when computers go wrong for no reason!

 

[stonecold3169]

Actually, I wouldn't worry too much about it... several important routers have been down as of late with a few of the big broadband servise providers, blocking off several sites and addresses. You might wanna call and ask though, sometimes they don't notice when these things go...

 

[Dreadogg]

norton makes a very good firewall compared to most! I used them all!

 

[MisterBombastic]

This is really strange. I was going to reformat and start again for the above reasons and some others. First I decided to try some other firewalls out, but to no avail. I reghosted my day old image to do some work before the format, and all the sites work! So does the UD Cancer program which wasn't working before. I don't know why this ghost fixed those things...it might have been a coincidence.

Curiouser and curiouser...