OK Normally I can diagnose/fix my own computer problems without much problem but this has me a little scuppered. 2 XP machines – neither can access a banking site (they can go through the login process but timeout), regardless of browser (tried IE, FF, opera, chrome). Fedora server machine on the same network accesses it fine with any browser. Went about killing off virus and spyware facilities on them – no improvement. Brought in my laptop, XP/IE – same “extra” software (avast etc) and it works perfectly.
I can only narrow it down to the machines themselves but I can’t for the life of me identify the problem. Stuffed. Thoughts?