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Nov 25, 2009

Cannot access some sites, Amazon, Ebay, etc.

It is suspected that your Hosts file has been hacked.  Do the following which should fix the problem:

1. Navigate to C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc directory.
2. Right-click on the HOSTS file and choose Open.
3. Use Notepad to open this file.
4. If there are lines that look like the following you must comment them out or delete them:
    127.0.0.1    www.amazon.com
   
127.0.0.1    www.ebay.com
5. To comment these out, simply place a # before each of those lines.
6. Test and resume normal surfing.

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