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jrjr:
Hi - first post  :smiley:

A few days ago a Microsoft tech ran the tweaking.com software on my Win 7 desktop.

With that result I have found that network discovery was turned off. I can only think it was done with this scan. Not a big deal, I turned it back on and that works ok....... but.....

As near as I can tell right after this tweaking.com scan I lost the connection to one and only one website. (weird) At least I have only found one. Initially I wrote it off to a website issue but after time, looked into it in more depth. That's why I am not 100% certain on the timing of the connectivity loss but it seems to have taken place in this time frame. The rest of the internet seems to work just fine. This website has been working and visited frequently for a long time. The site is www.theprofilebrotherhood.com

I cannot access this website from Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari or IE running on my desktop. I have checked the host file and it's clean. Checked Internet restricted sites and that has no entries. I have turned off all antivirus programs and turned off Windows firewall. Still no joy. Also have done a   ipconfig /flushdns   in cmd as admin with reboot.

I ran malwarebytes, Panda, Superantispyware, MS security essentials and cleaned whatever they found. Just standard cookie finds really. Also ran Malwarebytes rootkit program with no results.

I can successfully ping the website in question via IP and domain. If I enter their IP in the browser address bar it will time out the same as trying their domain name.

 I can access this website from my laptop on the same network, AND if I run virtual box on my desktop in question using a Win 10 or Linux VM I can access the website without issue.

I have run out of things to check. Any suggestions?

Edit
I searched the registry and only found one instance. See attachment

jrjr:
Small update. I found 2 more websites that have the same exact issue. The rest of the internet seems to work ok. Anyone have an idea?

Julian:
Have you opened up internet options and go to connections to see if you have a proxy server set up?

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Why-cant-I-view-some-websites

jrjr:
Yes checked that.... none set up in fact the button is grayed out

jrjr:
Another update

Tried a free proxy and I am able to open the websites in question.
Tried using Google DNS and also hard coding DNS with Roadrunner's DNS server address with no change- sites won't work.

So far the only solution is using a different proxy but I don't want to do that.

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