Blocked Http

[Tormentor159]

Every time I try to open a link in a email or even on a page i get blocked
HTTP error. If i remove the blocked in front of the HTTP everything works
fine. What could be causing the blocked to be in front of the HTTP. And to
answer future question no its not firewall, viruses or spy ware I have
checked for all of those already.

 

[Randem]

Not enough info... but you can see if IE is using a proxy server.

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[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

What's a "blocked HTTP error"?

 

[VanguardLH]

Every time I try to open a link in a email or even on a page i get blocked
HTTP error. If i remove the blocked in front of the HTTP everything works
fine. What could be causing the blocked to be in front of the HTTP. And to
answer future question no its not firewall, viruses or spy ware I have
checked for all of those already.

Something that is interrogating your network traffic is inserting
"block" in front of the URL string.

Ask your parents or employer as to what filtering they employ to control
to where you can visit. Maybe they only let you visit the sites that
they whitelisted. This type of filtering can be performed upstream of
your host.

 

[Jon]

Slightly off topic, if all it takes is to remove the word "blocked" to get access, it's not the
greatest of filtering.

Every time I try to open a link in a email or even on a page i get blocked
HTTP error. If i remove the blocked in front of the HTTP everything works
fine. What could be causing the blocked to be in front of the HTTP. And to
answer future question no its not firewall, viruses or spy ware I have
checked for all of those already.

Something that is interrogating your network traffic is inserting
"block" in front of the URL string.

Ask your parents or employer as to what filtering they employ to control
to where you can visit. Maybe they only let you visit the sites that
they whitelisted. This type of filtering can be performed upstream of
your host.

 

[VanguardLH]

Slightly off topic, if all it takes is to remove the word "blocked" to get access, it's not the
greatest of filtering.

Actually it would be rather lame filtering -- unless, of course,
removing the prefix to make a valid URL and then using that URL simply
results in the upstream filter re-adding the prefix for the
non-whitelisted site.

Could be the anti-virus or anti-malware program or 3rd party firewall
the OP is using is crap, rogueware, misconfigured, or corrupted.

 

[Guest]

Every time I try to open a link in a email or even on a page i get blocked
HTTP error. If i remove the blocked in front of the HTTP everything works
fine. What could be causing the blocked to be in front of the HTTP. And to
answer future question no its not firewall, viruses or spy ware I have
checked for all of those already.

If you're referring to URLs in Outlook email maybe this is what you're
looking for:

http://anandpv.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!AFCCA5892B178862!751.entry

HTH

 

[VanguardLH]

If you're referring to URLs in Outlook email maybe this is what you're
looking for:

http://anandpv.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!AFCCA5892B178862!751.entry

HTH

Changing to the Internet security zone to render HTML e-mails means that
scripts will run in those e-mails sent from unknown and untrusted
senders. It means anything will happen inside the HTML-formatted e-mail
that can happen on a web page you visit. You lose a lot of security
when not using the Restricted Sites security zone under which
HTML-formatted e-mails are rendered.

If you are changing the rendering just for one e-mail, and if you trust
the sender of that e-mail, and after looking at the HTML source of the
e-mail to ensure there are no nasties, then it might be okay to
temporarily switch to be much less secure Internet security zone for
that one e-mail.

See http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA011841931033.aspx. This
article is for Outlook 2003 (and probably applies to Outlook 2007, too).
The OP never bothered to mention WHICH version of Outlook that he/she
uses. It looks like this anti-phish safety feature in OL2003+ is
enabled by the "Don't turn on links in messages that might connect to
unsafe sites" option. So I wonder just to where those URL links go with
which the OP has so much difficulty.

That MS article states "If the Junk E-mail Filter considers the message
to be both spam and suspicious, but if the sender (for instance,
(e-mail address removed)) or domain (for instance, @example.com) is on your
Safe Senders List, then the message is left in the Inbox, but the links
in the message are disabled." So although you may have whitelisted the
sender of the e-mail, OL2003+ will still disable the URL links if it
thinks the e-mail is spam. Odd that the OP never mentioned getting the
"Some links in this message might connect to unsafe ..." popup. Maybe
he/she turned it off but failed to mention that it did appear.

 

[Jim]

Every time I try to open a link in a email or even on a page i get blocked
HTTP error. If i remove the blocked in front of the HTTP everything works
fine. What could be causing the blocked to be in front of the HTTP. And to
answer future question no its not firewall, viruses or spy ware I have
checked for all of those already.

Hosts list ?

 

[VanguardLH]

Hosts list ?

That will return an IP address. It equates a hostname with an IP
address, not the other way around.