Hi William;
Listen, it is indeed very good of you people to try and help me and I appreciate the help very much.
I am terrified of messing this computer up any more than it is.
You see I am not very computer literate, oh sure I can surf the net, manage my affairs and other stuff. But, when a problem like this happens, I'm out in left field.
Anyway, I can get into the system files,(windows 32etc.) and open it in notepad, but I don't really know what I'm looking for.

It's crazy! just the government .gc.ca sites won't open.
I hate to be a PITA and if you people are frustrated with the time I'm taking up, then please feel free to disregard.
I want you to know that your efforts to help have been respectfully appreciated.
When it comes to computers I'm like a third grader and need everything written down for me
Cheers and good on Ya!

Hi,

try writing this address in IE7 in stead of http://www.gr.ca :

198.103.238.30

This is the actual IP-address of the gr.ca -site. IF you get there using the IP, the problem lies possibly with DNS-servers. More help after you've tried it. Just write the numbers in the address-field in IE7. no http or anything...

Cheers,

Petri from Finland

Hi Petri, and thank you!
I tried what you said and it re-directed me to another site
(spider monkey) where there are a whole bunch of Government IP addresses.

I tried clicking on some of the links and got the same thing
(cannot open the page).

I shut down my firewalls and re-booted, again nothing!
I also got rid of (Internet explorer IE7) and reinstalled IE6

Still having the same problem.
Did a number of scans and system checks and they all come up clean.

I'm pretty sure I need to go in some where and re-configure something, but I'm not sure exactly what I'm looking for, or what to do when I get there.
What a dummy eh! LOL

Just to make sure you dont have any spyware or malware run this tool HijackThis and post or attach the log file to this thread.

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Greetings Sami,
I downloaded Spybot from your site, Ran it through the system twice anit congratulated me, came up clean.

Some times spybot misses some stuff like browser hijacking, which this tool HijackThis is very good at finding.

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Hi Sami,
Do i delete Spybot first??

Ok doing that now!

NO, don't delete it, you can safely have both. HijackThis is just a tool to find and analyze what's on your computer.

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Sami, it's still open but it won't let me send it to you
OK!

HijackThis doesn't fix any thing, it produces a log file paste that log file or save the log file on your computer and attach the file to this post so that I can analyze it, and let you know what to do next.

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