I have tried all kids of things, run dos commands etc, and still cannot acess www.taperssection.com. I know for a fact that it is up and running. Please help! Daryan tracert: C:\>tracert www.taperssection.com Tracing route to taperssection.com [12.96.162.208] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 8 ms 7 ms 8 ms 10.17.240.1 2 10 ms 11 ms 9 ms 12.215.16.169 3 145 ms 246 ms 107 ms 12.215.5.22 4 16 ms 17 ms 19 ms gbr2-a80s10.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.123.4.162] 5 16 ms 17 ms 21 ms tbr2-p013602.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.122.11.53] 6 17 ms 14 ms 17 ms ggr2-p390.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.123.6.37] 7 16 ms 17 ms 17 ms so-1-1-0.edge1.Chicago1.Level3.net [209.0.227.77 ] 8 19 ms 14 ms 15 ms so-2-1-0.bbr2.Chicago1.level3.net [209.244.8.13] 9 72 ms 85 ms 72 ms so-1-0-0.mp1.Dallas1.Level3.net [209.247.11.22] 10 76 ms 72 ms 73 ms pos8-0.core1.Dallas1.Level3.net [209.247.10.98] 11 74 ms 75 ms 79 ms gige10-2.ipcolo2.Dallas1.Level3.net [209.244.15. 98] 12 45 ms 47 ms 43 ms unknown.Level3.net [63.209.48.110] 13 45 ms 47 ms 44 ms ge-0-1-0.ibr4.dllstx2.theplanet.com [12.96.160.2 33] 14 59 ms 45 ms 49 ms car1-2-v1.dllstx2.theplanet.com [12.96.160.12] 15 * * * Request timed out. 16 * * * Request timed out. 17 * * * Request timed out. 18 * * * Request timed out. 19 * * * Request timed out. 20 * * * Request timed out. 21 * * * Request timed out. 22 * * * Request timed out. 23 * * * Request timed out. 24 * * * Request timed out. 25 * * * Request timed out. 26 * * * Request timed out. 27 * * * Request timed out. 28 * * * Request timed out. 29 * * * Request timed out. 30 * * * Request timed out.

Open (use Notepad) the "host" file (no extension) in C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc and remove any line in it containing either taperssection.com OR 12.96.162.208

I went and found the file, but there were no refrences to it whatsoever. The only thing it said was that it was a sample hosts file. Any help is greatly appreciated! daryan