Errors When Displaying Ads

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Whenever I go to the MSN homepage for example (and other websites, not just
MSN) where ever an ad should be it says that there was an error and the ad
could not be displayed. What is the problem? I noticed it happened after I
uninstalled StarDock's ObjectDock, Mozillla Firefox, and Netscape Navigator
Beta from my computer. Could that have caused the problem? Thanks
 
Don Varnau just solved this problem for me. In my case it was the HOSTS
file.

Here's what he said:

Hi,
These are probably being blocked by a HOSTS file or a program setup to block
ads.

To check the HOSTS file...
Make sure that Windows is showing hidden files and is
not hiding file extensions for known file types then check for a HOSTS file
at [C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc] Open the HOSTS file with notepad. If
there are entries you wish to disable, you can put the pound sign (#) in
front an entry to disable it. Then File> Save. Or you can rename the HOSTS
file to HOSTS.OLD to disable it.
More on the HOSTS file at http://www.accs-net.com/hosts/ and
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

Check the settings of any security, privacy, ad-blocking programs that are
running. One of them may be blocking this content because it looks or acts
like ads.
 
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