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Cannot Sign In to Google, Gmail, Xbox - Please Help

Spfeno1 · 2009-12-27 13:05:56

Hi there, hope someone can help me with this one. Bought a new netbook for Christmas - ASUS Eee PC (using this to post now) Managed to hook it up to the wireless network in the house and can surf the net BUT only when the website I'm looking for is typed into the \URL line at the top. I have Google set as the homepage but…

27-12-2009 2:05pm

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Spfeno1

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Hi there,

hope someone can help me with this one.

Bought a new netbook for Christmas - ASUS Eee PC (using this to post now)

Managed to hook it up to the wireless network in the house and can surf the net BUT only when the website I'm looking for is typed into the \URL line at the top.

I have Google set as the homepage but whenever I enter search criteria in the search box it just pops up a blank Google page. I have tried other search engines i.e. DOGPILE.COM and YAHOO and they both produce search results for me.
When I try to sign into Google or gmail it pops up -

INTERNET EXPLORER CANNOT DISPLAY THE WEBPAGE
DIAGNOSE CONNECTION PROBLEMS

I get this for a number of sites including Xbox sign in too

I am somewhat computer literate but this is really bugging me. My home LAN is a Netopia EIRCOM router with the ususal 4 LAN connections (LAN1, LAN 2, LAN 3, LAN 4). I already have 3 PC's and laptop running on this setup (not simultaneously obviously - and all working perfectly as usual). I thought maybe adding the new netbook might have caused a problem (i.e adding a fifth machine) but why then is it able to connect and bring up webpages typed into the URL line

Hope somebody can shed some light on this for me

Spfeno1

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#2 27-12-2009 2:17pm

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Sounds like Your hosts file is infected, see this thread. Run MalwareBytes and clean Your hosts file

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#3 27-12-2009 4:02pm

Spfeno1

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PógMoThóin - you are a star - job done

Merry Christmas (whats left of it) and Happy New Year

Spfeno

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