Hi, this is my first time using this website and I've been looking around on websites for ages for help with my question , but none seem to have as many experts as they do here. I tend to mess with my setting s on my computer alot,  and I downloaded some harmful things in the past so that resulted in viruses and such and LONG STORY short, i had to restart windows all over again, but the same problem exists. I cannot access certain websites that have poker in their domain name and when i search for "poker" it gives me an error message like this:   Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage
   
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You are not connected to the Internet.
The website is encountering problems.
There might be a typing error in the address.
 
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I THINK this is error message 401. ANYWAYS, I didn't have this problem in the past, and it WORKS fine with all the other computers. I think there is a host file error, but I don't know how to fix this. Can somebody please help me?
 
Im not so sure about this but I know in Internet Explorer you have the option to restrict the browser from opening a site with options set by the user. You might want to check the tools menu on your browser..

Sorry, Im using firefox thatś why I can not tell exactly where to find it in explorer.. Just hang in there.. Is this your machine or is it possible your folks have installed some blocking software ? ?
More details.I was thinking the same thing patioYes, this is my labtop and I have checked the setting for my browser. I was able to play poker before, but cannot now because of some sort of computer error.