Connection Refused to GoogleAdServices

I can’t figure out what’s wrong with this. “Connection was refused when attempting to contact www.googleadservices.com”

Nevermind… I’ve found the problem:

C:\Documents and Settings\Elliot>tracert googleadservices.com

Tracing route to googleadservices.com [127.0.0.1]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms localhost [127.0.0.1]

Trace complete.

It’s blocked in my HOSTS file (C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc). I’ve commented the line containing the domain googleadservices.com, but now it says: “Unable to resolve target system name googleadservices.com.”

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4 Responses to Connection Refused to GoogleAdServices

  1. oren says:

    I am having this same gooleadwords problem.. I dont know how to fix, i have no idea what you did?! Could you help?

  2. Elliot Lee says:

    Edit the file C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\HOSTS (on my install of Windows XP Home). Delete all lines that contain googleadservices.

  3. gary says:

    Thanks I have been looking for an anser for 5 days on my web page I have ads but when u click on ads got unadbl to connect but I can connent to other pages on my other older computer it would go right to the page so i knew my new computer was blocking it WHY dont they just let us decide what we want to see on lots of pages the ads were blocked not even showing just unable to connect so i tried c,windows,system32,drivers,etc,then deleted the hosts file and now i can see the page agin thanks for this but what and why do we NEED THE HOSTS FILE

  4. Lana says:

    Hi,
    I have a similar problem on my new Macbook. I’m running Leopard. Can somebody advise? I would greatly appreciate it

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