Hello!
Today, when I got up and sat down at my computer, I discovered I could not sign in to Hotmail. When I clicked on my shortcut Icon on the desktop, I get a page that says "Internet Explorer Cannot Display The Webpage." Also, I notice that before this shows, very quickly in the tool bar area at the top, shows 127.0.0.1 then the page shows up I just mentioned. I can access everything else except one more site and this is the strange one. It's Pogo.com. I bring up the homepage just fine, I select a game just fine and it brings up the window with the room selections and I select a room and I get the exact message and IP numbers as I got with the hotmail attempt. I accessed both of these sites last night before going to bed and they worked fine.

I did not have any programs running overnight and no updates were downloaded or installed. I have looked all day for an answer to this frustrating problem.

I have cable as my internet connection, I'm using Internet Explorer 7.0, I have the newest version of Sun Java, I have run two spyware agents as well as anti virus tests and except for a couple of tracking cookies everything was normal. I also have Window's XP home edition with the Service Pack 2 installed.

I went to the MSN homepage and tried to click on the Hotmail link there but still got the same IP of 127.0.0.1 and then the Page cannot be displayed message.

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

I have done a complete scan disk, a complete cache clearing, temp files clearing, cookies cleared.

Thanks for your help! I really appreciate it.