Downloading problems

message from =?Utf-8?B?SmVmZmFuZEplbm4=?= on 10 Jun 2004
We are running XP Pro and am having problems downloading anything. We get an error message saying "IE was not able to open this internet site. The requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found. Please try again later." Can anyone help? Is this a virus gone mad or is this some sort of security setting or a needed update. We just recently could download from windows update, before we couldn't. Can someone please help?

Thanks, Jeff and Jenn
 
roger replied to =?Utf-8?B?SmVmZmFuZEplbm4=?= on 11 Jun 2004
Hi,

Go to C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC

and find the "HOSTS" file. It's the one that's bigger than 1 k. Make a
copy of it for backup. Double click it to bring up the "Open With.."
window. Choose notepad to open it, then delete every line except
"127.0.0.1 localhost". Save it.

Hope this helps.
 

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