Google is a no go. - by glslvrfan
glslvrfan on 15/6/2010 at 21:40
I'm on my late mother in laws pc. Had it about 6 months. I can't get the damn thing to go to Google home page. Been like this since she passed. I can go just about anywhere else on the net. I tried Humoron, nothingtoxic, and a few torrent sites thinking there was a porn filter or something crazy but it goes there fine.
Running XP with SP3. I uninstalled AVG8 paid and Suze Ormons identity theft kit thinking one of those had a filter. Im stuck. Any suggestions?
Brian The Dog on 15/6/2010 at 21:49
Can you ping google? Just open up a command line and type "ping google.com". The address mine returns is 209.85.229.147, so you could try pinging that. If that works, try typing that address into the web browser's address field.
glslvrfan on 15/6/2010 at 21:57
Request timed out
addink on 15/6/2010 at 22:37
What if you directly try the IP instead of the domain name?
for instance:
(
http://74.125.77.147/)
If that does open Google, it might be that google has a specific entry in your local hosts file
("C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts" or something similar). See if that exists and if so, remove its line from the file.
theBlackman on 16/6/2010 at 00:02
Open the browser tools and check that she did not put it in the restricted sites. You can also add it to the admitted sites in the security tab.
