Frequent Cannot Find Website Message

[cnknelson]

I get the "Cannot Find Website" message with several websites. It happens a lot with My Yahoo and Yahoo, but not always. I have gone through the troubleshoot suggestions for IE but no luck. I use Firefox and get it with it as well as IE. Any suggestions?

 

[howard_hopkinso]

Hello and welcome to Techspot.

What ISP do you use?

If it happens to be NTL, they have been having a few problems of late. I have had exactly the same problems for a few days, intermittently.

If you don`t use NTL. I suggest you contact your isp and see if they`ve been having any problems.

Regards Howard :wave: :wave:

 

[cnknelson]

I have Sprint/Earthlink as my ISP. I have not had time to update my profile. Sorry. I have search with Google and other search engines and did not find an answer that worked or pertained to my situation. I have not had good luck working the the isp on other issues. We have another computer that does not have this problem, so I can be pretty sure to say it is something set on this computer.

 

[howard_hopkinso]

Have you checked your computer for viruses/malware etc?

Read the How to stickies at the top of the security and the web forum.

Regards Howard

 

[altheman]

check your host file (C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\) open with notepad and check if any site names have loopback address (127.0.0.1).
btw, this is a useful method to block "certain sites."

 

[paranoid guy]

Deja Vu

I started a thread kind of like this,
https://www.techspot.com/vb/showthread.php?t=46719

unfortunately, no answers, maybe it just... happens. It happens to me a lot on websites that would have a lot of people on them.