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I am writing from my office and will check back all weekend to see if anyone has posted advice. Suddenly, over the last 36 to 48 hours, I cannot parse Atheist Nexus and one other atheist site from my home PC. I simply stopped getting emails from the two groups and when I try to access them I get the "unable" page. Other bookmarked websites pose no problem. I thought, some sort of virus? I ran Housecall by TrendMicro and it found nothing on my PC. Has anyone had experience with this. I thought it might be something about the Firewall and/or Cookies, but how do a couple of sites mysteriously quit "working" on my PC? Thanks for any help you can offer.

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Permalink Reply by Tammy S on June 9, 2012 at 10:25am

Do you have some sort of filtering software on the home PC like you use to keep children from viewing adult sites and so forth, that could have possibly filtered based on a term?

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Permalink Reply by annet on June 9, 2012 at 2:03pm

I have also seen this James. I had a bunch conspiracy theories worked out such as my provider was religious and blocking it, etc... and still wonder at times However I don't have the issue anymore and it could be a DNS problem, basically a technical glitch with address lookup.

If you use windows here are things you can try:

What Tammy said
Try a different browser like firefox or google chrome
clean your cache and cookies
go to start menu, type in cmd, at the command prompt type in ipconfig /flushdns, type exit
search for the site in google, if not found click on the cached copy llink, try to enter from a link in the cached copy
type the URL into the address area and press control f5 a few times
restart your router, if you have cable restart the cable modem too (remove battery to get it all the way off)
good luck.

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Permalink Reply by Dakota Marquette on June 9, 2012 at 2:15pm

Yes, James. Annet's advice seems right on point! Also, turn off your antivirus/firewall software and try the site...but be sure to re enable it afterwards. :)

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Permalink Reply by James M. Martin on June 9, 2012 at 11:13pm

Thanks to all of you. I just deleted the whole introductory antivirus from McAfoolya and now I can access the site. Is there some other, superior antivirus than McAfoolya that I can subscribe to? Right now, I am trusting Microsoft's Windows 7 antivirus. What else do I need?

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Permalink Reply by John Burtonclay on June 10, 2012 at 3:25am

Hi James. I've always used Microsoft Security Essentials. It's free, and I've never had any trouble. Not even god can hack it. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows/products/security-essent...

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Permalink Reply by John Burtonclay on June 10, 2012 at 3:21am

Watch out James. God is on to you. Keep up this atheist thinking, and into the lake of fire you go. You've had a warning. Better heed it.

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Permalink Reply by James M. Martin on June 10, 2012 at 7:58am

Again? Sheesh! He already warned me by giving me leukemia. Thanks for your help, and thanks to all others who offered advice. The problem is fixed and I just downloaded MSE.

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Permalink Reply by Richard Healy on June 10, 2012 at 3:38am

Unrelated problem but the version of the website I can get on my phone doesn't include groups or blogs - only forums.

Okay so 1/3rd of the cool stuff on site. Not fun!