Browser can't open certain pages.. Page Cannot Be Displayed Error

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Ronald

I can open most of the sites on the internet except for a
few such as www.bboy.org butI am sure the website is not
down because my friends can access it. This happens with a
few other sites too, it takes about a minute to try and
load until finally it shows Page Cannot Be Displayed error
and on Mozilla Firefox it would show the connection timed
out error. In the past I found that using a proxy ip would
work.
 
It may be a HOSTS file problem.
Look for a file named HOSTS (no extension, could be hidden) rename it
OLDHOSTS.

You can open the file with Notepad

Unless you have install or created this file, there should be only one
uncommented line in it and that is
"127.0.0.1 localhost" (no quotes)

If there's anything else, either delete it or put a semi-colon ( ; ) in
front of the lines you wish to eliminate.
There are viruses, spyware and Web accelerator programs that will alter your
HOSTS file to prevent you from accessing certain sites.
 
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