Certain web sites on my pc do not work.... why??? on Photobucket i get this! ->

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b u m p

you been lookin at the hun again aint ya Rich

also it could be your parental control switched on?

or you could have block not allowing Jpegs, gifs and bitmap files etc

none of the above..... :(

cheers n e way Will

b u m p

noy sure how but it looks like wrong language or font setting

get on msn i may have an idea for ya

I've got a theory.... what ISP do you use?

I don't understand the photobucket reference. What happens when you try to access these inaccessible sites?

In IE6, if you get Page not found, it might just be that it doesn't exist any more (or can be temporarily offline whilst being updated).

I have hosts files and goodness how many security settings, but it doesn't sound like that's likely to be the problem here.

Those square boxes, pretty much as Octygone said, are usually an incapability to convert foreign language symbols into English - though these would normally be displayed thus on a Google search (say) and an option would pop up to download the translating software (courtesy Microsoft a few KB's), at least on my operating system. (Language converters are also available in toto as optional non-critical downloads via Windows Update.)

Sorry not much help. Perhaps report with more details unless you've managed to solve it with the help given by others?

Mo

I've seen something similar in Firefox - it seemed to 'forget' how to decode images and just presented the binary stream. Fixed it with an uninstall / reinstall.

Not sure if it's possible to uninstall IE6 - maybe a reinstall over the top would sort it...have you tried another browser on the same sites?

HMMMM - its an office pc, so i cant uninstall / reistall

www.tesco.com doesnt work even

i hit tesco homepage - and i get this - Å\érÛH’þ퉘w¨fÇtïF›‚hù¶(