Blocked website

[Rich]

I am unable to access www.equifax.com using my Vista Ultimate SP1 system.
Both IE7 and Firefox are unable to connect. I am running Norton Internet
Security 2008. No other sites I have tried to access are blocked. I have
checked for restricted sites in IE settings and have disabled all NIS
protection. Parental controls are not turned on. I am able to access the
site using two other systems on my network that are running XP SP2 with
NIS 2008. Any ideas what is blocking this site?

I just fixed this problem. Since it appeared to be a proxy related issue I
took a look at the netsh command.
(remember - The internet options app showed that no proxy server was
defined.)

1. Start a command prompt running with administrator privileges.
2. type netsh
3. type winhttp
4. type reset proxy
5. type exit
6. close the command window.

Apparently something was corrupt but who knows what it was!

 

[Michael Walraven]

Darn! I was really hoping your solution worked for me but no luck. I am
still unable to access (times out) www.equifax.com. Every other site that I
try works as expected.
(Vista SP1 desktop fails: XP SP3 laptop works fine both through same
router).

Michael

 

[Rich]

Darn! I was really hoping your solution worked for me but no luck. I am
still unable to access (times out) www.equifax.com. Every other site that
I try works as expected.
(Vista SP1 desktop fails: XP SP3 laptop works fine both through same
router).

Michael

Are you able to access the site using www.unblockerpage.com ?

 

[Michael Walraven]

Yes I can. From which I deduce that it is not the 'content' of the site that
is causing the problem.

The error is
Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage, this after a time out of
several seconds.

Michael

 

[Rich]

Yes I can. From which I deduce that it is not the 'content' of the site
that is causing the problem.

The error is
Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage, this after a time out of
several seconds.

Michael

Try running: ipconfig /flushdns from an admin command prompt.

 

[Michael Walraven]

Rich,
No-go for me, still same symptom. I have also been in the netsh command
area - resetting everything that has that as a option. As you observed it
seems like a 'proxy' is in there somewhere.

Michael

 

[Charlie Tame]

Rich,
No-go for me, still same symptom. I have also been in the netsh command
area - resetting everything that has that as a option. As you observed
it seems like a 'proxy' is in there somewhere.

Michael

Does http://216.46.96.115 work?

Not sure but maybe - if it does than it's a DNS issue and IE is not
getting that address - if it does not them something is blocking the
reply from their server.

 

[Michael Walraven]

THANKS
That was my problem. I still wonder why the only site I had problem with was
the equifax site?

Michael

 

[FromTheRafters]

Thanks for updating the thread. This was a puzzler.