Solved iframe subdomain won't display in any browser

[bachware]

This baffles me. It happens on my Win7 x64 tower installation, but not on my Win 7 x64 laptop — same browsers, same settings in CP | Internet Options. It's the <iframe>s at beforeitsnews.com. On my tower machine, I see all their <iframe> URLs returning

Unable to connect
Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at ox-d.beforeitsnews.com.

The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments.
If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network connection.
If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure that Nightly is permitted to access the Web.
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and disrupting page flow. The laptop's accessing the Internet via wireless, the tower via wired networking. I'm a techie, but not too swift on Web stuff. Suggestions? Thanks!

 

[bachware]

JV16 tools hacked the hosts file

That's what caused the problem. I un-readonlyed and commented out all the lines Macecraft'd put in there that pointed to 127.0.0.1 (localhost), and the problems went away.