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July 9, 2003 at 10:03 pm #12882

gaz_berotten
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Whenever i access a geocities website from yahoo or any where else i get this whitepages crap. What the hell is it

July 9, 2003 at 10:12 pm #93656

coolguyj2
Member

well if u get this page is not found, then this is b’cos geocities and many other sites have blocked access from other sites!!! i.e. u cannot view pages from a link, u have to paste the link in address bar!!! I dont know why the hell they did it!!!

July 25, 2003 at 2:30 pm #93655

Jeff Hester
Keymaster

I’ve been a member if Geocities for awhile, and I’ve never had many problems accessing them from anywhere else. Is it only certain pages you’re having trouble with or all of Geocities?

There’s only one recent incident I can think of where I’ve had a problem linking to Geocities, and it was here in this forum. I posted a photo link in my forum profile that goes to an image file called me.jpg and it didn’t work, so Shifter told me to rename the file to me.txt and now it’s working.

I’ve posted my home page link in forums, guestbooks, etc and never had any problems with them not working. So I wonder if this is a new thing Geocities is doing. :confused:

August 4, 2003 at 3:20 pm #93657

sixtyseven
Member

ive had this problem recently.
you have spyware and/or a recent browser hijack.

to fix it, you got to go into your hosts file. on windows this is usually system32 or some folder with system..

on NT
C: > WINNT > system32 > drivers > etc > double click “hosts” and opn it in notepad.

do you see the ip? it looks something similar to this: 123.45.678
if there’s anything other than 127.0.0.1 you definately have had a browser hijack or some sort of spyware modify this file.
look for the 123.45.678 geocities.com and 123.45.678 http://www.geocities.com and delete the entire line, this should restore your access to geocities and getting rid of the white pages. also change all ip entries to 127.0.0.1. that is your localhost (the computer you’re on) so it will block access to the sites you request it to.

for mroe information on attacks like this, check out http://boards.cexx.org there’s always similar problems being solved.

for more information on your hosts file, what it is and why its there… check out this page: http://www.accs-net.com/hosts/
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