Computer problems

[mauer]

Our little English bear friend is having computer issues. He asked me to post this here from his post at CFC cause he can't access CDZ for some reason.
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So right now i am unable to access a load of sites on the internet.
www.facebook.com
www.download.com
Whilst im unable to login to snitz forums
www.civ3duelzone.com
and can't search on google, i can get to the google mainpage but am unable to search.

In all cases (except CDZ) i can type in the address and hit enter but the tab just is constantly loading, with either whatever i had there previously or a blank screen. This is the same on firefox as on IE, i havent tried any other browsers but i think it is a problem on my computer. In the case of cdz, i can access everything there just unable to login, whenever i enter my password and hit enter the screen just moves on to a blank screen and when i refresh i'm back where i started.

Weirdly i am able to access some sites, here (obviously), hotmail, bbc.co.uk. But many of the sites are extremly slow to load. And occasionally google lets me search.

The only firewall i have is windows defender and i have the resident spybot thing running, i've attempted to turn both off and still i have no access to any of the sites.

I've run spybot, got rid of everything- even going as far as to unimmunizing everything and uninstalling spybot before trying and still no luck then re-installing. I've run AVG, it told me i had a couple of trojans and virus loaders but they were deleted. I've uninstalled firefox and attempted to use an earlier version, i've tried running firefox in safe mode but still no joy.

I'm not sure if its connected but throughout the day i've had a notifier saying that auto updater was not on, even after i checked and made sure it was. However, whilst writing it suddenly worked.

I'm getting tonnes of error messages from within the error console from firefox but as i've never really looked there before im unsure if thats normal.


Quote:
Error: uncaught exception: Permission denied to get property HTMLDivElement.parentNode

So anyway, any advice would be greatly appreciated because i am pretty much all out of ideas. (hopefully its something obvious)

edit- and yeah i've tried rebooting

edit2- I'm on windows xp home edition

[socralynnek]

Strange. It might be that it is provider related.
I had this once where a few sites were extremely slow, where the provider was routing an adress through a broken server.

The mainpages of Google and CDZ might be cached at an earlier stage, therefore it might be that the main sites can be viewed. Maybe a traceroute can help identifying the reason. Maybe not.

Might be something very different though, like a broken Firefox add-on or something.

[ProPain]

I have an old free provider account that I keep around for cases like this to check if it's my usual ISP or just me. Might be worth a gamble. If you dont have one yourself you can always try a neighbour and drag your comp over there.

[grahamiam]

from google -> http://trac.dojotoolkit.org/ticket/1807

quote:
Try the 'Remote mode combobox' Click the Select arrow, onMouseOut from the *last* entry causes:

Permission denied to get property HTMLDivElement.parentNode

This looks like a bug in firefox but here's a simple fix:

ComboBox?.js

_onMouseOut:function(/*Event*/ evt){

var relTarget = evt.relatedTarget; try {



if(!relTarget relTarget.parentNode!=this.optionsListNode){

this._mouseover_list = false; this._handleBlurTimer(true, 100); this.tryFocus();

}

} catch(e) {

return;

};

},

Also, since you have XP, try IE7 and see if you have the same problem.

Also2: Power down and unplug the computer from the wall (if a laptop, remove the battery as well). Press and hold the power button for about 45 seconds. This gets rid of anything residing in memory. Then power up again.

[Melifluous]

quote:Originally posted by mauer

This is the same on firefox as on IE, i havent tried any other browsers but i think it is a problem on my computer.

[Melifluous]

Anyway, on a more positive (ish) note, it would certainly seem as if his Java is buggered.

I'm not sure how to fix it, but I think a good start would be to try and remove it from Add/Remove programs and then go to a Java site and re-install it.

That would only be a rough guess as well... All searches on the internet point at a bug in Firefox/Mozilla/Opera whatever and NOT IE at all and most posts are over 3 years old

Will keep digging and see what turns up.

[Melifluous]

Although saying that here is something interesting...

quote:
Das Problem ist gelöst. Erhöhte Sicherheitsmassnahmen beim Provider machten es nötig die Schreibrechte im HC so einzustellen dass die Statistik die Log-Dateien aktualisieren kann.
Vom Provider wurde die Einstellung für mich geändert.

I believe this agrees with the guys above that it's probably your ISP.

I don't speak german, but I think that is generally what they're saying there

[Shabbaman]

Weird if his ISP starts implementing bugs that are solved three years ago... Anyway, my contribution to this problem:

Is it plugged in? Have you tried turning it on and off again?



Well, what you might try is to turn your modem/router off for half a minute. When it connects to the ISP it'll get new address whatever dunno's. BTW, if we start spamming solutions here, he can't read it can he?

[grahamiam]

quote:Originally posted by Melifluous

He didn't specify IE 6 or 7. I still am forced to use IE6 on my work computer and it does do curious things.

[ProPain]

quote:Originally posted by Melifluous

Anyway, on a more positive (ish) note, it would certainly seem as if his Java is buggered.

Had that on another laptop as well. Pretty hard to fix as Java refused to install a more recent version over the old one claiming all sort of crap reasons. Windows reinstall was the only solution.