cant access www.amazon.com

[themanofglory]

title says all
i cant access www.amazon.com no matter what i do
not IE, opera, or mozilla
any help?

 

[Cutlass]

Check your firewall to see if it is on a banned list.

 

[themanofglory]

it isnt banned
i shut off my firewall and all security systems and still it cant access

 

[Cutlass]

I have no other ideas. What was happening before you were blocked from there? make any changes to your system?

 

[GravityWave]

Is it blocked by your host file(?), which is located here:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts (Vista/XP)

 

[GVBN]

Can you ping it?

 

[themanofglory]

cutlass: actually this is a new laptop i bought
gravitywave: i checked my host file and that isnt the problem
GVBN: how do you ping things? im not a tech genius so sorry would you explain it to me step by step?

 

[Aramazd]

GVBN: how do you ping things? im not a tech genius so sorry would you explain it to me step by step?

Here's how you ping:
Open the command prompt.
Type: ping www.amazon.com

 

[Genocidicbunny]

In case you dont know where command prompt is: Start>run : type in cmd

 

[themanofglory]

ok when i type that in what do i look out for?

 

[warpus]

do the ping packets reach their destination, or do they time out?

 

[themanofglory]

well this is what i get
pinging www.amazon.com [127.0.0.1] with 32 bytes of data
reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
ping statistics for 127.0.0.1:
packets:sent=4, received=4, lost=0 <0% loss>
approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
minumum=0ms, maximum=0ms, average=0ms

so i guess the ping packets reach their destination

 

[GVBN]

pinging www.amazon.com [127.0.0.1]

Looks like a messed up hosts file. Open it with a text editor and delete the entry for Amazon.com

edit: You checked it already? Then it's probably spyware or some DNS issue

 

[Cutlass]

127.0.0.1 is not the IP address of Amazon.com. It's what's called a loopback address for testing your own system. Amazon may be 72.21.206.5 and it appears they have ping disabled to avoid a certain type of attack

 

[Mise]

Try putting the IP address that Cutlass gave for Amazon (i.e. 72.21.206.5) into the hosts file.

So type:

72.21.206.5 amazon.com

into the hosts file.

 

[themanofglory]

oh i see
fixed it
thanks guys for all ur help