Need help accessing Paypal

Got a bogus Paypal e-mail awhile back. When my girlfriend clicked on the link we were unable to access the real paypal site. I think it disabled a plug-in file. Anybody know what plug-in I need to access the paypal site?

I don't know anything about computers accept to turn it on, so any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Tim

hiya tim maybe it some secuty plug in but i dont do paypal

alsom maybe it is ya secuty setting,s i wish i knew more i tyyied google with no luck

Hello Tim,

I access my PayPal account by typing www.paypal.com and loging on from there.

Tom

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when I type in www.paypal.com I get the above message

did ya check ya securty streng tim? may also a tempory fix is install mozilla.but im not sure if that will work either i nevr saw that problem before

also maybe try deleteing cookies but be warned ya will have to reenter ya passwords and etc etc

I think that I saw a reminder last night that PP would be shut down last night from 11:00 PM until 3:00 AM today.
Try it again.
mut

I assume that your browser is working for other locations (such as CPF).

So--click on START, RUN and type in (without the quotes)"cmd" then type the following (without quotes):

"ping www.paypal.com"

and

"tracert www.paypal.com"

You should get something like:

<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>
C:\>ping www.paypal.com

Pinging www.paypal.com [64.4.241.34] with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 64.4.241.34:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

C:\>tracert www.paypal.com

Tracing route to www.paypal.com [64.4.241.34]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 * * * Request timed out.
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 * * * Request timed out.
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 * * * Request timed out.
8 * * ^C
C:\>
</pre><hr />

It looks like my provider (earthlink) has turned off ping and trace route--but that is OK, it can be a very helpful set of tools to diagnose networking problems.

But, in any case, I still resolved PayPal's IP address (at least for my computer) as 64.4.241.34

Look at what your address resolved to... If it is the same as mine, then you are having some other problem. If you get some other number--take a look at your "hosts" file using NOTEPAD. Search for it (should be under a windows/system type directory--not the one under \i386 directory.

If you find any entries for something like "www.paypal.com 123.213.78.64" -- delete it. It is pointing you away from the correct web site. (you may need to make the hosts file not "read only" to edit and save the file. Note, typically, you will only have this entry "127.0.0.1 localhost" in your hosts file.

Next, try typing PayPal's IP address "64.4.241.34" (without quotes) directly into your browser's URL box--see if you get any father.

Another good way to see if you are having network problems only to PayPal's site, try a proxy server. This site is free for the first few minutes and is very handy for trying to see if a site is accessible from elsewhere on the internet:

http://www.megaproxy.com/

All I can think of for the moment.

-Bill

try use another computer to log on paypal to see if the trouble is your computer or your paypal.