SOLVED!!!

After many (far too many) hours spent by searching for all sorts of possible solutions for my trouble with your (only your) website, it suddenly dawned on me that perhaps you, after all, offered the right solution but not the right way to get there. Namely, the suggested path through "Accessories" and "Notepad" didn't work at all. Not for me.

So I took the "classical" route:

My Computer > C:\ > WINDOWS > system 32 > drivers > etc

And – surprise, surprise! –  there was yet another "hosts" file (apart from the one that I had created/modified under your instruction). It had only two entries referring to your website (not five as in the other "hosts" file).

I opened the file with Notepad, deleted both "wrong" entries, saved the file, rebooted the computer — and, here we are: IT WORKS AGAIN!

I described my "inventive" procedure in order to help some other miserable soul like me who would not be successful by strictly following your instructions.

Thanks for all your help and patience. I am almost happy now.

Thank you, Speedmaster, for your swift and kind reply.

The problem with Mozilla was easily solved.
Unfortunately, the DNS problem is still here: cannot download/upload anything, despite the edited hosts-file.

Any other suggestion – or should I just leave it at that for a while?

Cannot download/upload anything

I have read the forum and tried the suggested solution with erasing all five lines in the host list that included gaytorrent.ru. (And, of course, rebooted my PC.)

Still cannot download or upload any torrent. Always get the information ¨"DNS connection error 10061 …". What is more, after the change, I cannot even login into your site with Mozilla any longer but only with IE (which I do not like).

I am using WIN XP Professional.

Can you, please, instruct me what I should/could do.

Many thanks!