Being a very huge social network, Facebook is prone to spammy links and spreading malware! I have been a victim of these. Before I wrote this, I was not able to access Facebook from any browser for the past 3 days! I could access it using a proxy or using some other computer but not my own! I could also access the Facebook login page from m.facebook.com and touch.facebook.com, however I could not login as it showed
“Google Chrome’s connection attempt to www.facebook.com was rejected. The website may be down, or your network may not be properly configured.”
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After a lot of Googling, I could find the solution in Microsoft Forums and it is to reset the hosts files back in Windows! Here is how to fix Facebook connection error in Microsoft:
Click the below link to reset the file hosts:
If this does not work out,
- Go to Start-> Run and type %systemroot% system32driversetc and press OK.
- You must now be in the folder Windows/system32/drivers/etc
- In this folder, you will find the file Hosts. Rename it to Hosts.old
- Now you need to create a new default Hosts file. To do this,
- Open Text Editor and type the following in it:
For Windows XP:
# Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp. # # This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows. # # This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each # entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should # be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name. # The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one # space. # # Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual # lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol. # # For example: # # 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server # 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host 127.0.0.1 localhost
For Windows Vista:
# Copyright (c) 1993-2006 Microsoft Corp. # # This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows. # # This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each # entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should # be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name. # The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one # space. # # Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual # lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol. # # For example: # # 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server # 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host 127.0.0.1 localhost ::1 localhost
For Windows 7:
# Copyright (c) 1993-2006 Microsoft Corp. # # This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows. # # This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each # entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should # be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name. # The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one # space. # # Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual # lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol. # # For example: # # 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server # 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host # localhost name resolution is handle within DNS itself. # 127.0.0.1 localhost # ::1 localhost
Save the file as Name “Hosts” and Save As Type “All Types”. Make sure you save it in Windows/system32/drivers/etc folder.
Hopefully, this must solve your problem. If it doesn’t I suspect your PC must be infected with some Malware for which you can download Malwarebytes.
For any other queries, kindly post comments below and I will be happy to help you 🙂