only this and something else loads

Sean The Owner · Post by **Sean The Owner** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 2:56 am

only gamebanshee, and some game, tribalwars will load on my computer, all the other web pages i tried dont work, including deviantart, knightfight, monstersgame, hotmail, google, and fasaria kingdoms, why do only those 2 load, and no other? knightfight and monstersgame are the same company, so they could be linked, but google, hotmail and deviantart?

fable · Post by **fable** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 8:10 am

Moving to tech support.

DesR85 · Post by **DesR85** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 9:39 am

Sean The Owner wrote:only gamebanshee, and some game, tribalwars will load on my computer, all the other web pages i tried dont work, including deviantart, knightfight, monstersgame, hotmail, google, and fasaria kingdoms, why do only those 2 load, and no other? knightfight and monstersgame are the same company, so they could be linked, but google, hotmail and deviantart?

Which internet browser are you using, by the way? Have you tried different internet browsers to see if any of those sites work properly?

BlueSky · Post by **BlueSky** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 11:25 am

Sounds like a virus or maybe even a Trojan horse running in the background...
time to break out the the ole Sherman tanks DesR85.:laugh:

Sean The Owner · Post by **Sean The Owner** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 11:40 pm

DesR85 wrote:Which internet browser are you using, by the way? Have you tried different internet browsers to see if any of those sites work properly?

firefox, and internet explorer wasnt working either, i cant download any others if i cant get onto the sites though...

i dont think its a virus, because i have the newest norton antivirus...could be one though...it runs half the time today, alot of the time it does say "this page could not be displayed"

and ya, i wouldve posted earlier, but i lost this post lol

Crenshinibon · Post by **Crenshinibon** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 10:37 am

Norton is a joke. It hardly protects from anything.

I'm using Firefox but I'm not experiencing any problems.

Does it still not work? Did it give you any error messages? If so, could you post them here?

Malta Soron · Post by **Malta Soron** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 5:17 pm

Crenshinibon wrote:Norton is a joke. It hardly protects from anything.

That is not completely true, but Norton is indeed one of the lower quality virusscanners. You could try downloading AVG and Avast! (via another computer) and let them scan your pc.

If you want to try another browser, Opera is a very good one.

Sean The Owner · Post by **Sean The Owner** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 10:00 pm

i had AVG before, but it only added spyware to my computer, and i got a virus through it...

its working now, but only has been since this morning

Magrus · Post by **Magrus** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 12:05 am

Norton IS a joke. My computer did similar things two years ago, I ran Norton, it found nothing. I ran McAffee's FREE scan, and it found 3 trojans. I signed up, paid for the service, it got rid of them. Since I have been paying for their service and have had no problems since. I have had a virus here and there, but it is always found and taken care of immediately. It may not be the "best" out there, but without any problems, I'm not rocking the boat and trying something new that might not work as well.

Is it still working?

Any idea what caused it?

Sean The Owner · Post by **Sean The Owner** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 12:34 pm

ya its working not bad now, still no idea what caused it, but it doesnt matter anymore, im moving a few provinces away and will have a new computer to use

i might try the McAffee thing or whatever it was called...

testifytotruth · Post by **testifytotruth** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 5:25 pm

Kind of an old thread but Norton and McAfee destroyed my computer... had to do a factory reset... because one night McAfee updated woke up and my computer couldn't get past the screen on boot up that allows you to pick how to boot up... and Norton never found anything allowing many things to hurt my computer... AVG on the other hand DOES NOT INSTALL malicious software in anyway .... you may think it did but it did not... also firefox is a much more secured browser than IE7... so go with that... and you could consider using a spyware program such as Spybot Search and Destroy it is one that works and I've never had any problems with it.. I don't use it anymore because I simply don't need it anymore considering my computer is sitting behind a t3 server that is dedicated to being a firewall...