[Blank75]

Hello,
Last week I had a adware.adtomi virus on my computer and I installled cwshredder, spybot search and destroy, ad-aware 6.0
on my computer and the I lost access to this site rpf.prop-planet.com

I think I maybe I checked a wrong box when I installed some software and I need to configure my computer to allow traffic to 66.227.56.249 (rpf.prop-planet.com) The programs I recently put on my computer are cwshredder, spybot search and destroy, ad-aware 6.0 Could any of these be blocking my access to 66.227.56.249?
Thanks

 

[brucedl]

Can't see how you'd get blocked from one particular site. What happens when you try to go to that url? Are your cookies enabled (the url says they must be). If I go to the IP, all I get is one graphic page, with apparently no links into th site.

 

[Guest]

Blank75,

Search your computer for a hosts file. The file will be named "hosts" with no extension. The hosts file should be in the C:\Windows directory. Open the hosts file with wordpad. Type Ctrl+f to open "find". Type rpf.prop-planet.com in the find field to search the file. If you find rpf.prop-planet.com it will probably be preceded by 127.0.0.1., which is the local host, meaning your computer. To regain access to the site, change 127.0.0.1 to 66.227.56.249 . Or alternatively you can type a # sign to the left of the line, or delete the line altogether as you prefer, and then save the changes.

 

[Bob Cerelli]

The other place you want to look at is in IE itself. This is how programs like Spybot will add restricted sites. Actually it's just a simple registry change but easier to get at from IE.

Tools / Internet Options / Security / Restricted Sites / Sites