403 forbidden

I'm starting to get 403 Forbidden messages to sites I frequently access.
Recently, I found that the site links on friendster.com are starting to give
me this message but I was able to get through when I pressed the refresh
button or go back and select the link again. It's as if IE is starting to
lock me out of some websites even though I'm not doing anything. Would
appreciate if anyone can help "unlock" some sites that keep giving me the 403
forbidden message even though my friends can still access them.

To add to the post, this is one of the forbidden messages I've encountered
from a webpage that is accessible by every other computrer except mine, even
after formatting the Harddisk and reinstalling XP Pro.

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an
ErrorDocument to handle the request.


"Malcolm" wrote:

> I'm starting to get 403 Forbidden messages to sites I frequently access.
> Recently, I found that the site links on friendster.com are starting to give
> me this message but I was able to get through when I pressed the refresh
> button or go back and select the link again. It's as if IE is starting to
> lock me out of some websites even though I'm not doing anything. Would
> appreciate if anyone can help "unlock" some sites that keep giving me the 403
> forbidden message even though my friends can still access them.