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Old Nov 13, 2003 | 8:52 am
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ScottC
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Sounds like your Windows hosts file has been altered.

In the directory windows/system32/drivers/etc you will find a file called hosts. All it needs to contain is this line:

127.0.0.1 localhost

plus a whole load of line started by a #

You'll probably see entries for the websites that are not working, just completely delete them.
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