Re: Thinkpad RSeries

[Justin Dearing <zippy1981@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds like malware check your hosts file. XP does not block your access to
Google.  Also XP is old and unsupported. If the machine won't run a newer
version of windows install linux.

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016, 21:00  <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Finally got around to trying to setup that old laptop.
> Remember, the XP one?  That was given to me by work after scratch
> installing XP.
>
> Well, I can get to downforeveryoneorjustme.com
> I can't get to yahoo.com or google.com but I can get to bing.com so I
> figure there's some setting in IE that says thou shalt not use search
> sites that return meaningful hits that are less than 80% ads.  How do I
> turn that off?  I can ping google.com.  My work laptop, on the same wi-fi,
> can get to google.com.
>
>
> Rob Berendt
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