1.) Check your HOSTS file and make sure that the sites have not inadvertently been blacklisted on your computer. The location of this file varies on your OS, so let us know which one you're running.
2.) What internet security software are you running? Most have the ability to block individual websites and Norton Internet Security is the most frequent offender of blocking without permission. The same goes if you are behind a router.
Let us know.
John
I've had no luck at all in accessing certain sites for the last 3-4 days that I usually visit daily. They simply won't load and I know they are stil active. For example, http://www.wunderground.com is one of the sites and it will not load on either my IE or Firefox browsers. A bit of more information that might help someone figure this out--I have a clickable banner to wunderground.com on a web site I maintain. The banner shows current local weather information and can be clicked on for more detailed information. On my site I'm getting the broken link icon for that.
The only thing I can think of that is causing this is that I downloaded an ton of IE updates in the last few days but I don't remember if the above problem started immediately after downloading and installing the updates. It's a mystery why this would be the problem and even more of a myster why it would keep Firefox from accessing the sites in question.
Any suggestions or thoughts? TIA for your help.
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