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cobb
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Topic: Trouble accessing the site Posted: August 25 2005 at 18:45 |
Well done syzygy for figuring out the problem.
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Tony R
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Posted: August 25 2005 at 17:26 |
Syzygy wrote:
Thanks for all the advice.
It turned out to be a problem with a wireless network connection that I installed a few months ago - I just rebooted it and voila!
Only took me 3 days to figure out - mind you, they say Einstein was a slow starter as well .
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Yes,I forgot-the router will have a firewall too.
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Syzygy
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Posted: August 25 2005 at 17:18 |
Thanks for all the advice.
It turned out to be a problem with a wireless network connection that I installed a few months ago - I just rebooted it and voila!
Only took me 3 days to figure out - mind you, they say Einstein was a slow starter as well .
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'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'
Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom
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cobb
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Posted: August 25 2005 at 07:26 |
If your norton product is the security version you also have a firewall
with this. If this is the case disable the windows firewall- it's
pretty much useless anyway. You could also try disabling any firewalls
temporarily to test. If it works you have a firewall problem.
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Syzygy
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Posted: August 25 2005 at 06:09 |
Thanks for the hints, everyone.
Tony - I've got Norton 2005 installed for virus protection, but still use the Windows firewall. I've tried adjusting the settings on both but no joy.
Cobb - I've downloaded adaware and I'll run it this evening. I get the feeling that I'm missing something blindingly obvious here, but I'm not much of a computer geek unfortunately.
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'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'
Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom
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cobb
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Posted: August 24 2005 at 19:15 |
As long as your cookies are enabled you will be logged in automatically
when you visit this site- I use firefox and this is the case with mine
- there is no need to log out. Have you made sure that you are not just
using the local cache on other sites. You will know this if you can
complete a google search or refresh the google page. It sounds a bit
like you have a spyware hijacker, but usually these will not affect
Firefox. Have you run any spyware removal tools, such as lavasoft's
adaware?
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chopper
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Posted: August 24 2005 at 13:47 |
That's odd. I use Firefox and sometimes close it without signing out
and it doesn't seem to cause problems. Do you have a firewall?
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Tony R
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Posted: August 24 2005 at 13:26 |
Are you running Norton?
I couldnt access some of the features of the site until I adjusted "Privacy Control">Configure>advanced>web content options >add site>type www.progarchives.com> information about your browser>permit
(I also have the information about visited sites set to permit too)
If you've already done this,then sorry for not reading your post accurately..
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Syzygy
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Posted: August 24 2005 at 11:46 |
Yep, I've got broadband and can connect to any other site that I want to (as far as I know). It's just this one and another site I have to sign into.
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'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'
Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom
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cobb
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Posted: August 24 2005 at 11:14 |
Can you connect to normal sites, say google?
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Syzygy
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Posted: August 24 2005 at 11:02 |
Just recently my home computer has been behaving oddly. This is the second site that I have had trouble accessing, the other also being an online forum where I have to sign in. I have adjusted my browser to accept cookies from here, added it to my trusted sites and even tried accessing it via Firefox but it still says 'cannot find server'. I'm having the same trouble with FTP. The only link that occurs to me is that both sites require me to sign in, and I've closed the browser without signing out in both cases. I can still access both sites from work, but if anyone has any bright ideas about solving this I'd be grateful. Incidentally, I've also run system restore but that didn't work either.
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'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'
Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom
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