This has been bugging me for about a month or so. Whenever I click on one of the google Sponsored Links or when I go to shopping.com, find a product and click Buy it!, I get the page cannot be displayed error. Everything else seems to be fine. Tried using firefox and ie and the results are the same.
Here are my specs:
Behind a router (with DMZ set for this computer) and a software firewall (McAfee).
Running Windows XP SP2 (don't remember if the problem occurred before or after installing sp2).
Messed with settings (a lot): custom set services, security level for ie, other ie settings, also used TuneUp Utilities to set up other system settings.
No spyware/adware/viruses/trojans
I tried this on another computer on the network, running Windows 98 SE, and I was successfully redirected, so I figured it would not be the router problem or a problem with the site blocking my IP address.
That looks like just about all the relative info that I could give. Any suggestions what so ever are welcome. Thank you.
EDIT: I just noticed that not all google Sponsored links are giving me a Page Cannot be Displayed error. if I google for "ram", two sponsored links appear at the top of the page. The top one (
www.ArchMemory.com) does not work, but the bottom one (
www.4allmemory.com) does, so maybe it's not my computer's problem. The shopping.com problem is though.