No Google or Hotmail access?

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Since the beginning of December I've not been able to connect to Google or login to my Hotmail account; never had a problem before. Each time I try, it loops for a while and then reports that "IE cannot display the webpage". I can access other sites without any problems.

I did some searching using Bing and Yahoo and found some suggestions that my hosts file might be corrupt. I had a look at the hosts file (at C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\Etc\hosts) and there is only one entry in the file, the IP address of my localhost.

Anyone had this problem before? I'm running MS Windows XP Pro, SP2.
 
Yep IE!

Well after all that, it went away by itself and everything is back online again - must be down to Santa. I assume the problem was with my ISP - TalkTalk. Strange, never had a problem with them before or heard of anything like this before. Does that mean all those people with similar problems should be talking to their ISPs too??
 
Not that the indian on the end of the phone will have any idea what the problem is or who to tell about it.
 
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