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I can't access hotmail or gmail. I get the message "unable to connect to the server". However I can access both msn and google main page and not problems with other sites. Any ideas of what to do?

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Cannot access hotmail or gmail, although no problems with the actual msn home page or other sites. I get the message: Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at .....

URL of affected sites

http://login.live.com; http://www.google.com

Cannot access hotmail or gmail, although no problems with the actual msn home page or other sites. I get the message: Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at ..... == URL of affected sites == http://login.live.com; http://www.google.com

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I think Hotmail requires that you have third party cookies enabled. Did you disable third-party cookies?

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Hi thanks for reply. No, not that I'm aware. How/Where can I check this? The only think I've done recently is install a different antivirus program and uninstall the old one which had expired. Not sure if this is linked to the problem...?

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