From last week onwards I am not able to get the www.hotmail.com login
from my SBCYAHOO DSL .  But I can get www.hotmail.com login page from
other ISVs.

There is no problem with my DSL or PC. I can goto google, cnn, yahoo
mail.
Only selected few sites like www.hotmail.com and others sites were not
accessible.  But those sites that are blocked by sbcyahoo dsl work ok
with other ISVs.  ( I also tried disabling firewall, virus etc - so
these are not the issues)

Did anybody encounter this type of problem.

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In article <92d3f983.0409051510.52b0f07e@posting.google.com>,
reader <medusamouth@yahoo.com> wrote:

>From last week onwards I am not able to get the www.hotmail.com login
>from my SBCYAHOO DSL .  But I can get www.hotmail.com login page from
>other ISVs.

I was just able to access the Hotmail login page from my SBC
residential DSL (an older, grandfathered static-IP allocation, rather
than one of the newer dynamic PPPoE types).  No problems at all.

>There is no problem with my DSL or PC. I can goto google, cnn, yahoo
>mail.
>Only selected few sites like www.hotmail.com and others sites were not
>accessible.  But those sites that are blocked by sbcyahoo dsl work ok
>with other ISVs.  ( I also tried disabling firewall, virus etc - so
>these are not the issues)

I've recently been helping out a friend with some SBC DSL issues, for
his PPPoE SBC DSL line at home.  In doing so, I've observed that
the SBC Yahoo DSL "installer" disk does some rather annoying
things to a normal Windows IE configuration... it seemed to intercept
all initial attempts to bring up the browser and "hijack" them to a
local configuration-management page.  It's also been reported that
the SBC disc also installs some spyware/adware.

I'm not sure how much of his problem was from the SBC software itself,
and how much was due to the numerous (Ghu!  unending plagues!) of
spyware, adware, viruses, trojans, etc. which had invested his system
as a result of his putting a Windows ME machine directly onto a DSL
modem line.  Uggh.  Even after several hours of attempted disinfection
in safe mode, there's still something hijacking his home page to a
list of ads for Viagra and penis enlargers.

I've gotten him to install XP and download the updates, I've installed
Mozilla Firefox and encouraged him to use it in place of IE, I've
turned on the XP software "firewall", and I bought him a Netgear DSL
router/WAP/firewall box.  If I thought I had to time to teach him to
use a decent Linux setup, I would.

So... if you're finding yourself unable to access certain web sites
for no terribly good reason, I'd encourage you to run an up-to-date
set of antiviral, spyware, and ad-ware scanners/eliminators.  Some of
these are known to redirect Web accesses in nasty ways.

--
Dave Platt <dplatt@radagast.org>                                   AE6EO
Hosting the Jade Warrior home page: http://www.radagast.org/jade-warrior
I do _not_ wish to receive unsolicited commercial email, and I will
boycott any company which has the gall to send me such ads!

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In article <92d3f983.0409051510.52b0f07e@posting.google.com>, reader says...

> From last week onwards I am not able to get the www.hotmail.com login
> from my SBCYAHOO DSL .  But I can get www.hotmail.com login page from
> other ISVs.

> There is no problem with my DSL or PC. I can goto google, cnn, yahoo
> mail.
> Only selected few sites like www.hotmail.com and others sites were not
> accessible.  But those sites that are blocked by sbcyahoo dsl work ok
> with other ISVs.  ( I also tried disabling firewall, virus etc - so
> these are not the issues)

> Did anybody encounter this type of problem.

No. I can get to http://login.passport.net/uilogin.srf?id=2 just fine from
my SBC Yahoo! DSL Service IP node (PPPoE connection; dynamic IP address).
OTOH, I did not let them download any SBC-Y branded software when I migrated
from a standard SBC-PacBell account to SBC Yahoo! DSL Service.

If there isn't some kind of problem with the configuration of the SBC-Y
software, or you don't have it installed, check your hosts file, firewall,
or other pop up controlling applications.

Of course, MSN does go down from time to time; and they are trying to
migrate to their new GByte service. They may just be having some hiccups
making those changes.

--
Norman
~Win dain a lotica, En vai tu ri, Si lo ta
~Fin dein a loluca, En dragu a sei lain
~Vi fa-ru les shutai am, En riga-lint

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