[TriLUG] what is blocking a website in winxp?

James Jones jc.jones at tuftux.com
Tue Apr 21 23:18:34 EDT 2009


Thanks to Neil for the log file suggestion and everyone for their
thoughts -- I will try these suggestions tomorrow at the Lady's
computer. If any other suggestions come to mind, please fire away!

jcj

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Neil L. Little <nllittle at embarqmail.com> wrote:
> You can also go to the system admin tools and take a look at the logs.
> Most of the time winders (being the POS it is) never tells you any thing but
> every once in a (great) while you get lucky.
>
> 73,
> Neil,WA4AZL
>
> James Jones wrote:
>>
>> Ooops,
>>
>> Trying to tabulate all the suggestions.
>>
>> Looks like tomorrow will be spent scanning for spyware.
>>
>> I will tabulate you suggestions and my comments in a better form later
>> tonight.
>>
>> jcj
>>
>> On 4/21/09, James Jones <jc.jones at tuftux.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Source                  Suggestion      result  other comments
>>>  Glenn Hennessee is it spyware?          still to determine ( std )
>>>  Glenn Hennessee Can you ping the site   using her pc, I can ping the
>>>  site    dns provides correct ip address for the website when pinging –
>>>  confirmed ip address by using dig on my linux laptop
>>>  Glenn Hennessee telnet to port 80 on the site           std
>>>  Sean Leinart    Any differences in the DNS Servers that either system is
>>>  using?          std
>>>  Neil L. Little  how about a different dns server like opendns or
>>>  4.1.1.1         refer to above ping comments
>>>  Neil L. Little  .NSLOOKUP
>>>  Carl Crider     Have you checked the HOSTS file?        confirmed that
>>> hosts file
>>>  exists without any additions that may block any site    Also searched
>>> the
>>>  system for hidden hosts file
>>>  Carl Crider     Clean the machine ASAP. I have done several norton scans
>>>        Suggestion
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  On 4/21/09, Carl Crider <c.crider at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>  > "nslookup"
>>>  >
>>>  >
>>>  >  On 4/21/09, Neil L. Little <nllittle at embarqmail.com> wrote:
>>>  >  > I think you can query the DNS using...LOOKLNS from CMD on a winders
>>> machine.
>>>  >  > That might not be right. Its been a while.
>>>  >  >
>>>  >  > Carl Crider wrote:
>>>  >  >> Have you checked the HOSTS file? Also check for a hidden copy of
>>> it.
>>>  >  >> Sounds like a case of xx_ware to me. I second looking at DNS on
>>> the
>>>  >  >> box Vs your laptop. Clean the machine ASAP.
>>>  >  >>
>>>  >  >>
>>>  >  >>
>>>  >  >> On 4/21/09, James Jones <jc.jones at tuftux.com> wrote:
>>>  >  >>
>>>  >  >>> All,
>>>  >  >>>
>>>  >  >>> A friend of mine has a winxp-home pc with sp-3 installed. Using
>>> any of
>>>  >  >>> 3 browsers, ( opera, IE6, firefox ), she cannot go to one website
>>> that
>>>  >  >>> she used to visit regularly. She receives a timeout. I can hook
>>> my
>>>  >  >>> laptop into her network and using any browser on either winxp or
>>>  >  >>> ubuntu, I can access the website with no problem.
>>>  >  >>>
>>>  >  >>> From her winxp, I can ping the site and do a tracert to the site
>>> with
>>>  >  >>> no problem.
>>>  >  >>>
>>>  >  >>> I can disable her norton anti-virus and windows firewall and
>>> there is
>>>  >  >>> no change. There are no entries in restricted areas of ie, no
>>> entries
>>>  >  >>> in hosts file.
>>>  >  >>>
>>>  >  >>> I have even tried to use the system restore, but system restore
>>> is
>>>  >  >>> always incomplete -- no changes.
>>>  >  >>>
>>>  >  >>> What am I missing?
>>>  >  >>>
>>>  >  >>> The website is http://www.healthjobsusa.com  ( she is looking for
>>> a
>>>  >  >>> nursing job and needs to connect ).
>>>  >  >>>
>>>  >  >>> If I don't have a solution soon, I guess I can always install
>>> ubuntu
>>>  >  >>> as a dual boot so she can get to the site --
>>>  >  >>>
>>>  >  >>>
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