My problem is that I am being blocked from proceeding from Google. But
after 2 or 3 tries it works. What could cause that?

Jeremy Nicoll - news posts wrote
in nvalid:

Tim Meddick wrote:

There should be only this one line in your Hosts file, unless you
have either SpyWareBlaster or SpyBotSD installed on your system.

Well, not necessarily. I have a printer on my LAN which has its
address defined in my hosts file and I also use it to define symbolic
names for my router, cable-modem etc, eg with entries like:

127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.1.91 myprinter
192.168.1.1 myrouter

so for example I can open the browser connection to the router by
putting

http://router

in my browser.