Any Pc Experts Here

[piglet]

Help please,
Can anyone help out? bloody pc won't let me log in to my ebay account or my msn account just comes up with page cannot be displayed had no touble before then all of a sudden blank have even tryed to open new account but comes up with page cannot be displayed. It's doing my head in. Has anyone got any clue what to do next?

[Dougie]

No expert,but we had that problem with MSN a while ago,asking around I was tol "it sometimes does that"! :D :eek: Give it a day or so,see what happens....

[piglet]

Have been waiting 2 months still nothing happens.

[Yoda]

What OS are you running 99/me/2000/xp etc..
is it only those sites????


first thing to do is check for spyware

there are plenty of freebeis and worth running a couple (DO deep scans)

microsoft do a free one ms antispy (and it is pretty good) (mainly because it wasnt built by microsoft and i was using it when it was Giant antispy)
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx

also run
adaware
http://www.noadware.net/?hop=wintech

and there are numerous others

Yoda

[Dougie]

I bow to the master's knowledge.

[excaliburs missus]

My little sis had that prob a few weeks ago....and that was with ebay and msn.

Didnt figure out what it was, but a system restore did it. OK if you have xp/me and know when it was last working OK

prob not much help, but if no one can come up with owt else, worth a try

[smeghead]

My little sis had that prob a few weeks ago....and that was with ebay and msn.

Didnt figure out what it was, but a system restore did it. OK if you have xp/me and know when it was last working OK

prob not much help, but if no one can come up with owt else, worth a try

had a similar thing last month my pc wouldnt allow me into any secure sites, ended up having to do a complete system restore :(

[Yoda]

ohh i forgot to add
run the anti-spyware progs in safe mode

either F8 when you boot up or use msconfig and choose boot ini and tick safeboot

remember to untick it to restore full booting

[pyro]

Clear out your temp internet files and cookies then run a proper OS... or run Mozilla firefox instead of IE.

[Abb]

If you are having problems accessing the www, it is always worth checking your hosts or lmhosts file.

Usually lives in C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc

Virii tend to append to this file to put certain sites on loopback (127.0.0.1) to stop you accessing them - although they are usually AVS sites. I assume that certain spyware will do the same thing.

Best idea is to make these files read only once you have made sure they are ok.

[madastoast]

Could you repeat that in english please :D