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Ok, regarding ZenMate:
It is a VPN (Virtual Private Network) service. A VPN is a tunnel between two points (your PC being one, and the server of ZenMate on the other). Communications between the two are encrypted. It is as if you are connected to the Internet from their servers, hence bypass your ISP.
The free version you loaded is a browser based VPN. The extension you installed for Firefox creates the tunnel between your PC and servers. There is a small icon on top right part of Firefox and see which country you are connected from. You can disable it from that icon, or change the country.
I usually use ZenMate for sites that would normally open but fail to at any time, or to access banned (due to some retarded court order) sites.
You don't need to use it for everything (I don't). I was more interested in seeing how it would behave. Your regular browsers are unaffected by the VPN (they will still connect through your ISP) and you won't get those warnings about being in other countries.
What you can do is, keep Firefox for these 2 sites but do your other stuff with IE and Chrome as usual. That is until (if) we can find a solution for you.
What we learned by this test is that your PC is ok (at least that's how I see it). So I will ask again, did you try to change DNS servers? If not, try it:
- Network and Sharing Center
- click on Local Area Connection
- properties
- TCP/IPv4 properties
- check "use the following DNS server addresses" and enter 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 in the 2 boxes (these are Google)
- ok your way out
- in cmd: ipconfig -flushdns
- try browsing to your problem sites with IE
By the way, if changing DNS works you don't need to use Google DNS (some people don't fancy it due to being tracked), you can switch to, say, OpenDNS.