Cannot access ebay and amazon web pages

G

Guest

Since about June 15 I have been unable to access ebay, papyal and amazon web
pages. I get The page cannot be displayed error message.
I have put these pages in my secure sites and still not able to open them.
How can I fix this problem?
 
A

AAH

Same to me in case of both sites.



Since about June 15 I have been unable to access ebay, papyal and amazon web
pages. I get The page cannot be displayed error message.
I have put these pages in my secure sites and still not able to open them.
How can I fix this problem?
 
T

tedlincoln

I've had the same problem accessing ebay and amazon. Anybody know
what's going on?
 
E

Emrys Davies

Jenny said:
Since about June 15 I have been unable to access ebay, papyal and amazon web
pages. I get The page cannot be displayed error message.
I have put these pages in my secure sites and still not able to open them.
How can I fix this problem?
Click to expand...

Jenny,

This with courtesy of Frank Saunders MS-MVP

Check for a file named HOSTS with no extension (not Hosts.sam). It may
be a
hidden file. Open it with Notepad and remove any line referencing the
site.
Or, rename HOSTS to OLDHOSTS

Regards,
Emrys Davies.
 
T

tedlincoln

My system has several flavors of HOST file, upper case, lower case,
subscript #1, etc. I looked in all of them and deleted entries for
Amazon, ebay, and paypal.
 
E

Emrys Davies

tedlincoln said:
My system has several flavors of HOST file, upper case, lower case,
subscript #1, etc. I looked in all of them and deleted entries for
Amazon, ebay, and paypal.
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Interesting to see that it contained Amazon and Ebay.

I have renamed my HOST file to OLDHOSTS and it has caused me no
problems. You can either do that or peep into it if you get further
problems with internet access.

I wish you well.

Regards,
Emrys Davies (Mr)
 
A

AAH

My Hosts file downloaded from
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/
has quite a few entries
127.0.0.1 ie spy ad #amazon.com



Jenny said:
Since about June 15 I have been unable to access ebay, papyal and amazon web
pages. I get The page cannot be displayed error message.
I have put these pages in my secure sites and still not able to open them.
How can I fix this problem?
Click to expand...

Jenny,

This with courtesy of Frank Saunders MS-MVP

Check for a file named HOSTS with no extension (not Hosts.sam). It may
be a
hidden file. Open it with Notepad and remove any line referencing the
site.
Or, rename HOSTS to OLDHOSTS

Regards,
Emrys Davies.
 
G

Guest

I dug manually in the system folder and found two versions of hosts file,
deleted references to the sites as suggested and all is working fine now!
Thanks for your help. Any suggestions as to how this occurred? I have
automatic updates set and am concerned these two thuings may be related as
the dates match.
 
R

RRR_News

If you have installed any anti-spy or ad-blocking software, some include of list of sites that can be added to the HOSTS file.

Another thing could be that you may have or had spyware on your PC that altered your HOSTS file, even if you thought you remove it. For some, it takes manual file and or registry changes, in addition to what a removal program will do automatically.

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Jenny said:
I dug manually in the system folder and found two versions of hosts file,
deleted references to the sites as suggested and all is working fine now!
Thanks for your help. Any suggestions as to how this occurred?
Click to expand...

Jenny,

This site may help you understand Hosts file.
http://accs-net.com/hosts/what_is_hosts.html

Regards,
Emrys Davies.
 
G

Guest

Ok...checked all the HOSTS files, nothing. Not sure when this started, but
so far only amazon is affected...most likely because we don't use ebay or the
others.

When I attempt to open www.amazon.com, I get diverted to
http:///? www.amazon.com, and 'page not found'. Added amazon to
trusted sites, tried to follow various ms troubleshooting dissertations, and
so
far no luck. Running IE6.0 SP2 on XP with SP2.

I've disabled pop-ups.

Any help would be appreciated...
 

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