recently ive been unable to connect to some sites. when i try to i get the "Connection refused" error in firefox and the "Page cannot be displayed error" in IE.
i know that the sites work because i can access them from my mates computer. any ideas on this?

one site which doesnt work for me is www.lik-sang.com

This could be related to an entry in your hosts file. Read "Connection refused when contacting www.msgplus.net" (note that it deals with a different site than yours).

thanks it worked like a charm, although theres a slight problem. no animations/pictures appear (well on lik-sang)

Ensure that the location of those images is not blocked either. Also ensure that you do not have any ad blockers that could intercept the images.

yay, thanks