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December 22nd, 2004 23:00

No eBay?

Does anyone know what would prevent IE from accessing ebay?  Other computers in my home can access ebay but mine can't.  Even if I type www.ebay.com in the window in says "Page can't be found"  I can get to all other sites and all my Favorites seem to be working.  My network is fine.  This began yesterday morning. 
 
Anyone else have problems with ebay?
 
Thanks in advance.
 
amajamar
 
 
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    fireberd

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    Posted December 23rd, 2004 09:00

    Since this just started happening, so a System Restore to a date/time prior to it happening and see if that fixes it.

    Another thought, do a spyware scan in case e-bay got "hi-jacked".

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    JRosenfeld

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    Posted December 23rd, 2004 18:00

    Also check your HOSTS file to make sure www.ebay,com is not being redirected to 127.0.0.1 (your PC).

    In XP the HOSTS file is in

    C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC
    You can open it in Notepad.
     
    If you are not familiar with HOSTS, see http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
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    amajamar

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    Posted December 23rd, 2004 22:00

    I dumped the browser cache and it seemed to clear itself up today.  So, thanks guys!
     
    By the way my Hosts file was empty.
     
     
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    chewyxbox

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    Posted July 25th, 2012 08:00

    when i clicked ebay icon on desktop and it went to website  and wont open ebay as saying "long live votf! "  so i assume that is hacker that caused it ?  how can i clear the browser cache from where?

     

    but other way i typed in web site  ebay  works fine but not direct from ebay icon that dell installed for me when i ordered new laptop previously.  so it looks weird and cant repair it cuz theres no ebay restore on dell support drivers and download  section.

     

    please help me cool.

     

    chewyxbox

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    rockyis1

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    Posted July 25th, 2012 12:00

    This happened to me today also with my eBay icon on my Favorites toolbar.  If you right click on the eBay icon & click on properties, you can re-type the correct website address & it will solve the problem.  I don't know if anything else was done during the hack, but this will solve that issue.

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    firevalk01

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    Posted July 25th, 2012 16:00

    the same thing today has happened to me. im not exactly sure what happened. i can type in ebays address but cant click the icon in the tray. cant alter the address either so i just deleted it. but i am curious as to the cause of this. 

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    Svet789

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    Posted July 26th, 2012 10:00

    Same thing happened to me.  I clicked on the ebay icon and got that white screen with the "I love...".  Did a virus scan (no help), downloaded malabyesware (no help), did a system restore (no help), clicked on ebay icon and right clicked properties...did restore to previous working version (no help), tried to type in the correct URL (no help). 

    I really want that cute ebay icon as I can't find it online anywhere. anyone?

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