Can't access certain websites

irishturkey

Hey, I've been having trouble opening Hotmail and Youtube on my laptop lately. I use Chrome these days but I've also tried Firefox and Internet Explorer. I'm not very tech savvy so don't really know what to do. I can get into most pages (I don't use many different ones) so its quite irritating that I can't use the few I want to use. All I get is:

If you use a proxy server, check your proxy settings or contact your network administrator to make sure the proxy server is working. If you don't believe you should be using a proxy server, adjust your proxy settings: Go to the wrench menu > Options > Under the Hood > Change proxy settings... > LAN Settings and deselect the "Use a proxy server for your LAN" checkbox

I don't know what much of this means. Is there any good reason for some pages opening and others not opening?

FSL

I assume from the use of wrench you are on a Mac have you tried following the instructions and clearing the use proxy box?

chin_grin

FSL wrote: »

I assume from the use of wrench you are on a Mac have you tried following the instructions and clearing the use proxy box?

You don't use google chrome do you?

So it's happening in each browser?

Bit of a longshot, but what anti virus do you have installed and when was the last time you ran a scan?

irishturkey

chin_grin wrote: »

You don't use google chrome do you?

So it's happening in each browser?

Bit of a longshot, but what anti virus do you have installed and when was the last time you ran a scan?

I just ran a scan and nothing showed up. I use AVG and its all clean. Woe is me!

steveon

It sounds to me like your hosts file is corrupted, happened to me before as well,couldn't access certain sites such as Facebook etc.

You can repair it by doping the following

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972034