google error

Sic · 13 Oct 2006 at 14:24

i'm getting a 403 forbidden when accessing google at the moment, and it's suggesting that there might be spyware on the network/computer. is anyone else getting this or is it just me?!

wizardmaxx · 13 Oct 2006 at 14:26

Mines fine

Craig321 · 13 Oct 2006 at 14:28

Copy the contents of hosts here.

Type this into run:

notepad C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

Craig.

Sic · 13 Oct 2006 at 14:30

it's just 127.0.0.1 localhost

hmmmm

zetec452 · 13 Oct 2006 at 14:30

can you tracert to www.google.com?

Sic · 13 Oct 2006 at 14:39

yeah...

iCraig · 13 Oct 2006 at 16:22

The world will have long ended when Google goes down.

Ed · 13 Oct 2006 at 21:15

Please don't worry about this notice. I had this recently working off a government network running a watchguard firewall, basically tight as it gets. It stopped sending me the error as soon as it started.

Google have recently updated their service and I guess the data centre you were balance loaded to had the issue at that time. I've not seen it since. I'm guessing they are currently working on some sort of DoS system to prevent automated queries. Who knows!!!