I can access all websites with no problem- except for one. I need this site for my work. The problem is intermittent- sometimes I can get in, other times (nearly always at the moment) I get a message that IE cannot find the site. I also use Mozilla Firefox and have exactly the same problem with this site. I was able to ping it with no problem but not open the site. I have dumped my cache but no help. We set up monitors on the site to see if there was any down-time, but there is not. I am the only person that cannot access it.

It seems the problem must be with my PC or my internet connection. The site is not a secure site so I don't think the security setting should matter. It is not a site that would be blocked by any content blocker. Can anyone suggest practical steps I can take to resolve this? Thanks so much.

i have the same problem. the website is www.grandamgt.com though. i asked five or six friends to try it and they all got on no problem. i tried each of the four computers on my network and they also say they cant find it. this is also after trying it on IE, Avant, and Opera.

Stephanie: It sounds like your ISP has blocked the site, probably for security reasons which have nothing to do with the site itself.

Often websites and email addresses are blocked by ISPs because some users on the ISP report receiving spam with return addresses showing those addresses. AOL is the biggest offender here, reblocking the same site again and again each time some user reports spam from the site. AOL also blocks outgoing email to the site, and often doesn't tell an email sender that his email was blocked.

But most of that spam is really spoofed spam, sent for the purpose of phishing through links to phake websites. The problem is that the ISP anti-spam software can't tell the difference, so it blocks the legitimate site. Now eBay has become the most often blocked site, because spoof/spammers are using phake/phishing sites to steal user IDs.

Get on the horn to your ISP administrator and find out if the ISP is blocking the site.

mlfbell: It seems that either your ISP, or the website's ISP, is so overloaded with traffic that it can't handle your request.

One thing to look for is if the status bar says it is waiting for reply from a doubleclick.net site. That is a site which posts those slideshow ads on many web pages. The problem is that they oversubscribe their service. Then, during peak hours (4 pm to 9 pm Eastern time), their site can't handle all of the requests simultaneously. The rejected ones return as either a page not found or a browser timeout.

Also check your anti-virus and anti-spyware software. They may be doing the censoring because they detect real or pseudo viruses. (A pseudo virus is machine code in a legitimate program which matches a template in a virus definition.) And some of them, when they find doubleclick.net, also reject the entire page.

Other possibilities include not having enough internet cache reserved to open the page, and image sizes exceeding the maximim file size your ISP allows.

Thanks very much. I will call Comcast up and see what the deal is.

Well, I have a similar problem- only one site gives me trouble but it is one I use every day sometimes for a couple of hrs- it is a religious forum that I really enjoy- but it has started to fade to a white screen with the letters readable but no separation between posts and etc- also very slow and can't post- it has been going back and forth between normal and faded out but today it's been faded all day and can not post???

any ideas? I need help! Thanks!
Suzy

What is the site your having issues with?

I would like to take a look and see if i have issues with it

Welcome to Daniweb

HI Dude- Thanks for replying- I am beginning to think it is my ISP- when I downloaded it again it acted right for a while and then messed up again- now it is going back and forth .

Here is the name of the site-

ThEndTimes.com

Thanks again!

Hmm, I would agree it's the ISP..call em!

Thanks Guys!

I just downloaded another one and so far it is working fine- I am hoping that solved the problem!This puter is squeaky clean as far as anyone can tell and it really was a puzzle!

Thanks!

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