Cant access hotmail ! ! !

Discussion in 'Software' started by saty, Nov 5, 2004.

  1. saty

    saty Private E-2

    Hi,
    I was wondering if anyone can help me, cos im in total despair here :O(
    I am able to browse over the internet normally however i am unable to access hotmail or msn. The hotmail web page used to redirect itself to PerfectNav now that i got rid of PerfectNav i view a blank page with the message "The page cannot be displayed". I would greatly appreciate anyone explaining to me what might be causing this is it some sort of spyware? And how can i remove it ?

    Thank you very much
    Greatly appreciating any advice on this matter.
     
  2. TheDoug

    TheDoug MajorGeek

    You probably have some leftover junk in your hosts file. It's in your C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\drivers\etc folder. Open it with Notepad and delete any lines not preceded by a #, except for 127.0.0.1 localhost. If it's not there change whatever line starts with 127.0.0.1 to look like that. Save it without a .txt extension-- you may have to anyway, then delete the bad hosts file and then rename your hosts.txt to just hosts.
     
  3. saty

    saty Private E-2

    Thank you very much for your reply.
    I had tried checking the hosts file already and i only have one entry which is
    127.0.0.1 localhost. Would you know of any other feasible solutions to the problem im having.

    Many Thanks,
    Saty
     
  4. TheDoug

    TheDoug MajorGeek

  5. Rob_Ford16

    Rob_Ford16 Private E-2

    i am new to majorgeeks and i have a similar problem. i can browse the web and i can go to hotmail.com but i cant check email or download any updates for any of my programs. my outlook express cant download my hotmail either. its not my firewall because i disabled that and it still does the same things. when i do try to sign into hotmail it just says this page cannot be displayed. i have adaware SE personal spybot and the new AVG anti-virus and none of them detect anything. please help me before my account gets deleted from hotmail!!
     

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