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unable to connect to social media and search websites

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I'm able to connect to every other website except social media and search engine websites. I can't connect to sites such as facebook.com, twitter.com, google.com, and bing.com.

I'm able to connect to every other website except social media and search engine websites. I can't connect to sites such as facebook.com, twitter.com, google.com, and bing.com.

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Réiteach roghnaithe

I already figured it out. All those websites were listed in the hosts folder in Windows so I erased them from that folder and it worked.

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Please explain the problem in detail. What happens? What is the exact error messages?

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Réiteach Roghnaithe

I already figured it out. All those websites were listed in the hosts folder in Windows so I erased them from that folder and it worked.

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I've figured it out already

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That was very good work. Well done. Please flag your last post as Solved Problem so others will know.

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Thank you very much