Does Vista block cookies by default?

Core Duo, 2GB, Vista Home Premium working perfectly
Avast plus Defender


On both IE and Firefox, certain sites that require a
logon - such as cruisecritic.com - are blocked. I cannot
even get to the logon screen! In the browser I have
enabled cookies without restriction, experimented with
AV off, and the problem persists. Can it be Vista?

Any ideas?


Thanks

I go straight to it with IE7 and Vista Home Premium. No probs at all.

"notaguru" wrote:

> Core Duo, 2GB, Vista Home Premium working perfectly
> Avast plus Defender
>
>
> On both IE and Firefox, certain sites that require a
> logon - such as cruisecritic.com - are blocked. I cannot
> even get to the logon screen! In the browser I have
> enabled cookies without restriction, experimented with
> AV off, and the problem persists. Can it be Vista?
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
> Thanks
>

"notaguru" <notaguru-> wrote in message
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> Core Duo, 2GB, Vista Home Premium working perfectly
> Avast plus Defender
>
>
> On both IE and Firefox, certain sites that require a logon - such as
> cruisecritic.com - are blocked. I cannot even get to the logon screen! In
> the browser I have enabled cookies without restriction, experimented with
> AV off, and the problem persists. Can it be Vista?
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
> Thanks

This is probably the cause - your Hosts file.
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
Regards Mike.