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Just a thought - I had a similar problem two years ago with a web site the deals with commercial links called Trade Doubler. Everybody else could log in for it seemed for there were no complaints at all on the discussion forum and I couldn't whatever I tried! (must have flushed my DNS cache half a dozen times!)

Lots of suggestions on the forum all tried without success, until somebody suggested I tried a Trace Route. Then looked up the DNS of Trade Doubler - sure enough they didn't match!

Then told to look in my Hosts file. Some sort of malicious re-direction was the general consensus.

At that point in the investigation (I was trying to do one of those "identify the virus problem" over the web) the whole pack of cards came down around my neck and I had to re-install Windows XP.

Moral of this story:
1. Don't run external virus investigations however good their provenance!
2. Have a peek at your Hosts file to see that some evil spirit has not made a home in your computer!

Paul

7/7/081:08 PM

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