Visiting a particular site redirects to my

PWS Localhost home page

[SuzyUK]

Hi..

I've been trying to reach a well known website.. but every time I do I get my default localhost page. The address bar still says the name of the site I'm trying to visit.

XP Pro.. any browser

did a fetch on the domain and sure enough it's coming up 127.0.0.1

any ideas..

Suzy

[IanTurner]

It is most likely a firewall or adblocker has added the site to your hosts file

C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

(If its not there, do a search on files named hosts)

Entries will be like this

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 www.example.com
127.0.0.1 example.com
etc.

You will need to edit the file to remove the offending site's entry.

[SuzyUK]

Ian, thanks that was indeed it..

adblocker added it!

Suzy