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I have been having, for a week or two, the weirdest problem ever. Let's say I try to follow a link in PCWorlds newsletter, I then get an error message saying:

"Connection Failed. Firefox cannot connect to the server at Reviews and News on Tech Products, Software and Downloads - PC World. - The site may be temporarily down, try again etc. etc.

The message comes up immediately, no trying, with subsequent time-out, just bang - head against the wall.

Same difference with Internet Explorer.

The weird thing is that it's only PCWorld.com I cannot connect to, all other sites (this one, for instance) work fine.

I just can't remember what I might have done to exclude myself from PCWorld.

Can anybody out there guess what's the matter?

Thank you!

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closed as off topic by kez, Diago Feb 2 '10 at 23:19

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Try flushing your dns . Open command prompt Windows Key + R type cmd then type this

ipconfig /flushdns

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OK, thanks MrStatic. I did'nt know about that one...incidentally; the problem fixed itself sometime yesterday. A mixed blessing, as now I'm none the wiser should it happen again. But then, I could try flushdns. – MauiWowie Jan 2 '10 at 13:29
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