CNN site hates my PC

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Beirut 18:57 06-29-2009

When I go to the CNN.com site, my net freezes up and I get an error message. "IE has encountered a problem and needs to close... yaddah-yaddah." I get this nine out of ten visits. I'm a news junkie and this is killing me.

I run AVG 8.5 and Ad-Aware every day, I run Clean Cache once every week or two, and I don't have this problem on any other site. Only CNN.com. Been like this for months.

Any idea what's going on?

Thanks.

naut 19:04 06-29-2009

Ping cnn.com in cmd. See if that works. Maybe try with a proxy or a different browser.

Beirut 19:29 06-29-2009

Originally Posted by Psychonaut:
Ping cnn.com in cmd.

Whoosit my whence with a what?

Sorry, but my little brain understands not what you speaketh.

Xiahou 19:52 06-29-2009

Use FireFox?

Your problem could be caused by alot of things- anywhere from problems with the site to a corrupt plugin or malware. I've also heard the AdAware isn't up to snuff anymore- you might want to try something like SuperAntiSpyware.

Caius 21:48 06-29-2009

Originally Posted by Beirut:
Whoosit my whence with a what?

Sorry, but my little brain understands not what you speaketh.

Start, run, "cmd"

You will see a DOS screen. Then type the following:
ping cnn.com

Copy paste the results, Beirut.

Hosakawa Tito 23:38 06-29-2009

Originally Posted by Caius:
Start, run, "cmd"

You will see a DOS screen. Then type the following:
ping cnn.com

Copy paste the results, Beirut.

Ah, an english translation for the "too old to be pc literate" among us. Thank you muchly.

Beirut 00:36 06-30-2009

Originally Posted by Caius:
Start, run, "cmd"

You will see a DOS screen. Then type the following:
ping cnn.com

Copy paste the results, Beirut.

Cool, thanks.

Exactly as follows:

Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for ---.---.---.--
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% Loss),

(I left out the IP number in case it was my own and someone might use it to steal my beer.)

Lemur 00:52 06-30-2009

Maybe CNN is IP blocking Canada? It could happen. They've never apologized for Celine Dion or Bryan Adams. They deserve whatever happens to them.

Monk 01:02 06-30-2009

Originally Posted by Lemur:
Maybe CNN is IP blocking Canada? It could happen. They've never apologized for Celine Dion or Bryan Adams. They deserve whatever happens to them.

Now now, the Canadian Government has apologized for Bryan Adams on several occasions.

If it makes you feel better, a ping of CNN.com got the same time out from my end, while totalwar.org came out fine.

edit: however firefox and IE both have no problems getting to it... strange.

Xiahou 03:04 06-30-2009

Many sites have their routers/firewalls ignore ping requests to help against DoS attacks. That's probably the reason you're getting time outs.

naut 06:36 07-01-2009

Can you access it through a proxy, like www.ftunnel.net?

KukriKhan 14:58 07-04-2009

How are you trying to "get" there? A Favorites link? If so, maybe that's mangled. If you type in 'C N N' into google, does it take you there?

Beirut 00:09 07-07-2009

Originally Posted by KukriKhan:
How are you trying to "get" there? A Favorites link? If so, maybe that's mangled. If you type in 'C N N' into google, does it take you there?

Interesting, I'll try that.

I always just type "c" in the address bar at the top and the rest just pops up and I click it.

FactionHeir 00:21 07-07-2009

Have you updated your flash player? Sites like CNN using flash based ads tend to result in application death if flash player is outdated.

An adblocker like ie7pro would be helpful too.

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