[RESOLVED] Diff. Viewing som webpages

[musicman7722]

Greetings: Recently I've been having issues viewing a few different websites. In one case (PayPal.com) I can see the text but all images come up as unavailable and the page itself has no color. All the links work but it took me awhile to be sure it wasn't a hoax site. A second example is www.musiciansfriend.com. Safe music site but on my PC it comes up page not found. I've scanned for all the usual stuff and PC comes out pristeen. I'm a PC tech so I like to think I know aht I'm doing. Any thoughts? Chris

[Shard92]

couple of thoughts.... what browser are you using? Have you tried reinstalling it? Maybe you have pictures from paypall blocked? I know you can do that in firefox..... not sure of others.

as far as the other site, have you checked your hosts file to make sure it didn't somehow get added there?

[Ferrit]

Works fine here so tis not a site issue
Yes do check the hosts file

[musicman7722]

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I haven't donw a lot of work with host files and a few weeks ago I downloaded a program that did some blocking. I suspect that was the culp. as I found the blocked sight listed there. I wound up renaming my hosts file and rebooting. Now both the blocked URL and PayPal comes through.

Will my host file rebuild on its own now that I've renamed it?

Chris

[musicman7722]

Actually I just checked and a BU of the hosts file from Micro Soft has stepped up to the plate. My thanks to Bill Gates and Co.

I'm all set AND I've learned my one new IT thing for the day.

Chris

[3fingersalute]

The one put in place by MS is just a blank file, so you're no longer using the hosts file to block anything. The other thing you could do, is use the original hosts file, and just comment out the lines you want to ignore by putting a semi-colon in front of them like this:

; 127.0.0.1 www.siteyoudontwanttoblock.com
127.0.0.1 www.siteyoustillwanttoblock.com

Or, just simply completely delete the lines containing sites you don't want to block.