dont know what i have done?

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

Hmmm... all right. Glad you got it sorted out.

If you need any more help or advice in the future, you know where to find us. 

Any ideas what you did?

[CBMatt]

While I was busy playing games and registering for classes, I obviously worked some kind of secret voodoo magic.

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

While I was busy playing games and registering for classes, I obviously worked some kind of secret voodoo magic.

That's what happens when your picture is spread throughout the forums; you start to take control.........

[efresh]

Hmmm... all right. Glad you got it sorted out.

If you need any more help or advice in the future, you know where to find us. 

Any ideas what you did?

yes,i was playing a game and i came across a forum and it had a strategy thing in it with sum tips to improve yourself so i thought y not give it a wurl!!! this is what it said:-

You will want to put the following domains as "127.0.0.1" which is "localhost" or the local, internal IP address of your network card (localhost is the same for everybody). Here are the domains I've found so far (by viewing source on the HTML page or right-clicking on banner ads).

      www.google-analytics.com
      ads.ak.facebook.com
      i306.photobucket.com
      static.ak.fbcdn.net
      ads.lookery.com
      ads.socialmedia.com
      flingweb.com


The hosts file entry will look like this:

Code: Select all
    127.0.0.1    www.google-analytics.com ads.ak.facebook.com i306.photobucket.com static.ak.fbcdn.net ads.lookery.com ads.socialmedia.com flingweb.com



What happens now is when your browser downloads a web page, and the "src" of the HTML points to a document on one of these sites (such as an ad banner), your browser will try to load it from your 127.0.0.1 IP address (which probably doesn't have a web server running) and will return an instananeous "conection refused" (which you won't see, the browser deals with it). The bottom line is that you will see a blank space rather than an image.

To turn off this "blocking" just comment out the line by putting a "#" in front like this:

Code: Select all
    # These are comments
    # And will be ignored
    # 127.0.0.1    www.google-analytics.com ads.ak.facebook.com i306.photobucket.com static.ak.fbcdn.net ads.lookery.com ads.socialmedia.com flingweb.com



so i had changed sumthing in my host files and then it had hapened,my own fault for doing stuff i didn't know how too!!!!! thanks very much anyway

[CBMatt]

I'm glad you stumbled upon a solution (I personally think it's more satisfying that way).  And you're right, you shouldn't mess around with things you know nothing about.  But I have to wonder...did you actually alter the HOSTS file yourself and cause this problem?  It's possible that an infection may have done this, which was going to be my next guess.  If you would like to make sure, feel free to check this out:
http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/topic,46313.0.html

[efresh]

yeah i changed the hosts file myself and as soon as i changed it by deleting what i had added it went back to normal.i did actually thought i had done it the day before thats why i was rather confused!!! i have plenty of protection on my computer spyware terminator,spyware blaster,zonealarm,spybot search and destroy,avast,avg anti spyware think there maybe more!!! i dont go on dodgy sites either(porn etc!!!)

[CBMatt]

Good, good.  Well, if you have any further trouble, don't hesitate to stop by again!