One of the most popular social networks "VKontakte" is often not available, which causes users a lot of indignation and makes them nervous and worried. Agree, this is a completely normal reaction of a person, because over the past few years this social network has become for many a part of their life - here they communicate, exchange new information about themselves, and also solve questions, such as: "When will you meet? Where? In what time? Who will come? ", Etc. And what should we do then if we can not get in touch when it is vitally necessary ?!
You need a way to help them do it. How do you take the data of this form and do something meaningful? There are simple fixes and hidden workarounds for this problem. But these methods have serious drawbacks for serious applications. Of course, you can provide a link for sending e-mails with simple mail: a link similar to this one.
But this approach leads to a huge amount of incoming spam, because the automated software collects your email address and begins to transfer garbage that you do not want to read. In addition, this approach does not allow you to manage the format of the user's message in any way. You can not prevent them from sending attachments, nor can they require you to select the product you are interested in from the drop-down list or request the user for useful information.
Reasons for not working a social network
First, let's look at the possible reasons for not working the social network.
One of the most common reasons is simply that there is no stable connection to the Internet. Perhaps you have poorly inserted the Internet cable into the computer, it may have been a failure at the provider (the cable was cut, the switch was burned, there is no electricity, etc.). You might say: "But why are the other pages loaded?", The answer is also simple: "They are in the browser cache! That is, they take information not through the Internet, but through stored data that has remained in the computer. " In addition, the data stream from the provider itself may not be stable, and thus only some web resources that are in the cache will be downloaded. When the speed of the Internet falls (again caused by a problem on the part of the Internet provider), this can also cause a long load of the social network. So think, is it right. 
Choose the product you are interested in. This approach gives us a little more control: the user is asked to select the product of interest, in addition to entering the message. The user's browser can not be configured to send forms correctly by e-mail.
The format in which the message really reaches you depends on the browser and the browser, which makes it difficult to read or organize the results. Most users simply hit "Cancel" when they see warnings of this kind. But for those of us who want to engage in professional activities, there is a better way.
The provider blocked. Some providers specifically block access to resources that are included in the list of sites containing information and / or files that violate any law or morals. Especially this practice is common in the West and in America (although more recently in Russia). Sometimes errors are blocked and normal sites, therefore, by pure chance VKontakte.ru can get into this "black list". If the reason is this, then in this case, you will see a corresponding inscription that this website was blocked by the provider for such or such reasons, or you can simply be thrown on the provider's main page.
How to prevent the work of a social network?
Thus, web servers have long been extended in various ways to provide "dynamic" behavior, such as form processing. Both of these functions are optional, and you can use the form without them. Send us an email.
Secure programming: never trust the user!
Your real name. Enter your message in the next field. However, this is a little more complicated than you probably expect. And it's fair to ask why this is necessary. Naive programmers often just write. And if they decided to send the text formatted in this way for the email field.
A big problem for companies in recent years has been access to the Internet. As many owners of companies have noted, working capacity with the advent of the worldwide Internet network has significantly decreased. The decline in activity in the work of analysts is attributed to the wide access to the Internet, and especially to entertainment sites. At first, employers blocked the work of instant messengers only, because they believed that it was they who took time from employees, but then switched to websites, and naturally the most popular social network "VKontakte" got to the black list. Therefore, if you are trying to get in touch with the workplace, then do not be surprised if it turns out to be blocked. And in general, be careful with such attempts, it is possible on the host computer to be fixed how many times and who entered this address, after which these data can be transmitted to the boss, who will cause you to not quite a pleasant conversation. 
In other words, your site becomes a spam relay. Too long, someone complains, and your web host disconnects you. But by that time your reputation was already damaged. Never, never letting the "new line" characters appear in any field entered by the user, except the message body.
This is just one of many things that we test in these regular expressions. This code corresponds to a reasonable email address. But just calm down and read it from left to right. The ^ at the beginning of the regular expression means "match at the very beginning of the line". Without this, the regular expression will match if a reasonable email address appears anywhere inside the user's input, but the user can also enter new lines, commas and additional email addresses.
Social networks are not available in the school! In most schools, technical schools, lyceums and universities for a long time there are computer classes that have access to the global Internet. However, many students used computers, or rather the Internet, not always for educational purposes. But it is the young people who are the most active visitors to social networks, so they very often come from computer classes to these networks, after which the school's management came in the same way as the directors of enterprises-they banned visiting such websites and blocked access to such web pages. Therefore, if VKontakte does not work in a school or other educational institution, it means that, most likely, it was blocked and nothing more.
Once again your site transmits spam for unwanted parasites. We also include the sign, the sign is the "period" sign. and tilde. This means that "it repeats one or more times." We say that the email address should start with one or more characters in the set. This also escapes, just in case it has special significance in regular expression! Otherwise they can have amazing effects. The second half of the regular expression matches the portion of the domain name of the email address with another set of characters.
Here we allow only letters, numbers, dashes, periods and exclamation marks. Who knows, someone else can use them. This will still allow crackers to add their own and unwanted headers. And this is never good. This is just a brief overview of some useful regular expression functions that are visible on this page.
Very often the reason for not working the contact is related to, which "settled" in your computer. Viruses are of different nature and have different purposes. Sometimes their task is to disconnect you completely from the Internet, thereby forcing to fulfill any conditions (send sms, transfer money to an account, etc.), and sometimes viruses are specially designed to block your access in the social network "VKontakte". Typical features of the virus are: failures in other programs, suspending the operating system, disappearing shortcuts from the desktop, the appearance of new files and folders, etc. In general, the computer can be described as "disobedience" - you give one command, and it performs another. 
What to do if cleaning the host and antivirus did not help?
It works, but it's not very elegant. On more advanced sites error messages are displayed, at the same time they re-display the form, and all user input is still available and ready for editing painlessly. So what does this mean for us?
When searching for specific form fields, such as named Send buttons, we can decide which function should be called. And this determines what the end user sees at that particular visit to the page. However, before doing this, it selects the fields that the user has already entered so that they can be easily reprogrammed, eliminating the need for re-entry.
Enter the wrong address of the social network "VKontakte". This reason may seem ridiculous and ridiculous, because everyone seems to have entered the address exactly as it should. However, we hurry to upset you, every day contact users make hundreds of mistakes when entering the address of this social network and, moreover, this amount does not include those who use various programs like Punto Switcher or smart browser such as Mazilla FireFox, which can correct the error themselves . Also, those who instead of entering the address in the address bar use the bookmarks, history, or enter the query "VKontakte" in the search system and go to the first or second link, which will be entered either on vkontakte.ru or on vk.com .
After the ball is completed: user redirection
And it also contains the full path to the current web page inside the site. In most cases, the user experience looks something like this. The user looks at an interesting product or service. The user wants to get more information. The user would like to immediately return to the product page. But they can not do this, because the form submission page does not know where they came from.
Fortunately, we too can solve this problem! How can we do this work for us? By providing this information with us with each submission of the form, until the letter is sent finally. That's why we use the hidden form field to complete the task. An input element with its type attribute set to hidden is not actually displayed to the user, and its value is passed unchanged when the form is submitted.
Sometimes the reason is someone else's machinations with. In other words, in your computer, someone else has "rummaged", who has tuned it (perhaps specifically, and perhaps not) to it so that now it is impossible to get in touch with it. Configure the computer in this way in several ways: through the file hosts, antivirus, browsers, and through a number of special programs that will deny access to this site. Special craftsmen can even write a small virus program, but then it can easily detect an antivirus and neutralize it. 
But where do we use this information? In the redirect function, which is called in two situations. Important: The header function must be called before any other output is sent. You can argue that this is not necessary - all that a user can do, after all, is deceiving themselves, and you are probably right. But it never hurts to protect against unexpected ways of using the code in the future.
There is no 100% perfect solution to the problem with spam. This code does most of the work for us. Please help us prevent fraud by entering the code displayed on the image in the text field. Yes, and if the design of our website includes many places where users would otherwise be able to re-enter such information, it becomes reasonable to remember it.
"VKontakte" is really not available! You probably will not believe, but sometimes the best servers fail and even such a giant of the Internet as a social network "VKontakte" is able to stop loading for a while, due to power outages in the data center, increased load, technical malfunctions, etc. In addition, scheduled work is possible to replace the equipment or reconfigure the software providing the site and its other services. If the contact is really not available, then it will not work for your friends, so you can call them and ask about it, you can also go from your mobile phone (so that the provider is different). And the main indicator that the contact has temporarily stopped working is a message on Twitter, as it is from time to time that warnings that the site is not working and after what period of time the full functionality of the social network will be available again. Subscribe to their feed on Twitter, you can go to: https://twitter.com/vkontakte.
As you probably guessed, there is a convenient way. # Obtain the user's email address and real name if they have already been installed. If you are an administrator and your page is eligible to participate, you will see this option in the page settings.
To check the page, use the phone number of the company, public or business document. We will only use this information to verify your page. Click "Settings" at the top of the main page, click "Check Page". Click Check this page, and then click Start. Enter the phone number that is publicly listed for your company, country, and language.
What to do?
Clear cache. If you failed to start a social network even after the tenth attempt, and it took an hour, and maybe more, but the contact still does not work ?! Then your first action should be to clear the browser cache. Simply put, you need to remove temporary memory in the browser, since there may be a site that has been working for a long time, but you still see the old page cache. For example, we'll clear the temporary memory in Opera, for this you need to click on "Main button" (by calling the browser menu), then select "Settings", in the next sub-menu select "Delete personal data ...". For a clearer understanding, we've made a screenshot for you, how to clear the bar's cache: 
Now you will open a small window , in it click on the item "Detailed Tuning", then uncheck everywhere except items "Clear cache", and now click on the button "Delete". For more details, see the screenshot: 
Approximately the same way, the cache is also cleaned on other browsers. In any case, if you can not clear the settings of another browser, you can always open / download Opera and already in it to check if a social network is available or not. If all this is difficult or too lazy for you, you can call a person who understands computers better, give him a link to this article and ask him to clear his browser's cache to check whether VKontakte is available or not.
When you know for sure that the site does not work, there is no news about it on Twitter, clean cache does not help either, it means it's time for you to check your computer for viruses. Catching a virus on the Internet is easy enough, and if you do not have a good antivirus, then you can say with 99% certainty that there are virus scripts on your computer. For testing, we recommend using Kaspersky Internet Security, this distribution can best check the computer for malicious code. Kaspersky Anti-Virus in this respect is inferior to it, for the reason that KIS is heavily developed for Internet protection. You can perform an additional check with Dr.Web. Choose the most profound test, so that the antivirus well "digs" in your files and folders. 
Fix the hosts file. Very often access to the site is blocked through the hosts file, since it is he who is responsible for redirecting the web addresses. The file is located on the computer at C: \\ Windows \\ System32 \\ drivers \\ etc. You can open the file with a regular notepad, but it is better to do this with the help of the program Notepad ++. In the file itself you need to delete those lines that contain the addresses of vkontake.ru or vk.com. This file could be modified by a virus or a person specifically so that you can not go in contact or for when you enter the contact's address, you are on a completely different site. Naturally, to edit this file, you must be an administrator on this computer. After fixing the file, you must click "save changes", and restart the computer. In general, before editing (especially if you meet this file for the first time), we recommend that you first make a copy of the contents of this file, especially so that you do not worry - even if you delete an important part of the code, you can always return the code to the place.
If access to a social network is blocked to you at work or in an educational institution, you can use special services that, despite all prohibitions, can bypass protection and give you access to a contact. Here are a few examples of such services:
Choose the most convenient for yourself service and use. These sites are created only for "translation" of other web resources, so you can, do not worry for your passwords and data on the contact page. There are also special websites only for "circumventing the ban on contact," but our editorial office does not trust them, so you can use them only at your own peril and risk. 
Wait for the site to work. Quite a logical answer to the question "What to do if nothing helps?" Will be - "Wait!". If the reason for not working was on the site side and it is not available to everyone, then you have nothing to do but wait until the site starts working again. If you are in a hurry, then from time to time you can clear the browser cache to quickly see the fact that the site has started up again, and you can enjoy all of its services and capabilities. To quickly pass time, and you do not tire of expectations, we advise you then read our article on. If you just simply update the page - the site will not work faster from this. As an alternative to a permanent update, we recommend that you install a special plugin for FireFox, which updates the page in the space you specify (for example, every 15 seconds for 4 hours).
As we have already mentioned, a breakdown in the work can be caused not only by a malfunction of the site server or your computer, it may still be in your network. Therefore, check that all the wires are connected where necessary ?! If you have wireless Internet, then check if the cable is connected to the router, you may need to restart the router, as they very often hang. If you do not know how to reset the router properly, do this: put the router plug out of the socket and wait for 1 minute, then again insert the plug and wait until the router starts working (1-2 minutes). If you know that there are no failures on your part: the cable is inserted, the settings are made, etc., but the contact does not continue to open, you can try calling the provider and find out what the problem may be. Ask if they have such a problem and whether the site is blacklisted (although such a probability is small, but it should be clarified). 
What can not be done?
The main task of all viruses and frauds is always gain, as a rule, material. Therefore, many viruses and malicious codes make a kind of "background" instead of the "VKontakte" site. When you open a site, you receive a message with content that ends with the same phrases like "send sms", "send money", "pay the bill", etc. Promise you that after this site will be immediately available. Do not believe it !!! Owners of the social network "VKontakte" would never have allowed this and would never require money from you without fail. Before you send a text message, consider whether it will really be free. Call your friends and ask them if they require you to send sms for contacting you, perhaps discuss this situation on the forum. Try to go to your page from another computer or phone, if you enter and do not ask for any SMS - be aware that you are trying to rob. If the message does not leave the screen for any of your actions, do (or order this service in a special computer help center) and first of all install a good antivirus program (for example, Kaspersky Internet Security 2012). 
Run unknown applications or files. Sometimes viruses ask you, optionally download or install an application or program that will allow you to make contact, so this should not be done either. Such a requirement is a vivid example of fraud, because again the social network does not intend to switch to the "desktop version", since the main advantage of this network is the ability to use it in the browser, i.e. from absolutely any place of the planet and any PC. The program, on the contrary, will bind the user to the computer, which means that he will rarely go into the social network for communication. That agree will be unprofitable for the owners. Therefore, never install any applications related to the contact, especially if you download them from a site on which you have not previously downloaded anything. We advise you to install programs only if they were downloaded from the official site, and given that the official site never offers anything to download (from the programs), then the program will be "fake".
Many users like to give speed to the computer with a kick on the system unit. We recommend that you do not do this. If the site does not work - it does not mean that the computer is to blame, it may be a matter of software or problems on the site server or your provider. And the impact on the body of the work will not accelerate, and even vice versa can slow down, since you can hit so that damage the motherboard, processor, graphics card or something like that. And any physical breakdown, will turn for you by its replacement, therefore, a waste of money. And as a result you will receive: that you could not enter the site and the computer was broken. If you are using a laptop or netbook, then you generally should be very careful - the details in them are very fragile and small. A small crack is able to disable all the equipment. 
How to prevent the work of a social network?
So, we already know the reasons, and also know what to do if VKontakte is not available. Now let's move on to the final phase, let's try to understand how to avoid such a situation! There are only four councils:
- Always keep the antivirus enabled. Do not think that the computer will be protected if you only include the antivirus to check the PC for viruses. It should always work and catch malicious files, only in this case it is possible to keep the protection of the computer at a level. Naturally, download only those files in which you are sure and from those resources that you trust. Try not to receive unknown files by mail or icq from strangers.
- Do not allow "strangers" to the computer. To achieve optimal security can only be if for your computer no one "outsider" will not sit down. Outsiders can be called any person you do not trust very much or he does not know much about the computer, but allows himself to create things on it that you have to return everything afterwards (changing settings, deleting unknown files, formatting disks, etc.)
- Do not lose passwords. Hacking your mail, social networking site, blog or something like that is very difficult. In 60% of cases the user is to blame, so he allowed negligence and left somewhere a saved password in the browser (from a friend, in a computer class, at the institute, etc.). To prevent this from happening, never save passwords in browsers, never carry a list of passwords and logins in the file on the USB flash drive.
- Have always an alternative. If you want to protect yourself in every way, then start using not only the social network "VKontkate", but also "Classmates" or "Facebook". This will help you continue to communicate on another site. Have an alternative and on the Internet or devices. The simplest option, always have the opportunity to get in touch with the phone, i.e. mobile Internet, it will help you even at the workplace to use the site without restrictions.
Hello, dear visitors! Do not you have a vkontakte? Do you want to know why the contact does not open? So you are on the right page! In this article we will tell you why the contact does not open and what can be done with this problem.
In fact, the reasons are most likely in the virus, so we'll try to tell you how to deal with viruses that make it so that the page in contact does not open. What to do if the VKontakte does not open? Find out right now why the VKontakte does not open, and what to do in this situation!
Why the contact does not open
The main reason that does not open vkontakte are viruses. It is because of their tricks that the websites stop working. In general, social networks and sites of antivirus vendors suffer. However, the problem most likely lies in one small file, which we now find. Perhaps it is he who will help answer the question of why the contact does not open.
So, you need to go to the Windows system directory in the following way (Windows directory is usually located on the drive "C"):
Windows \\ system32 \\ drivers \\ etc
Passed? If so, the following picture opens before us:
As you can see, the file is called hosts. It then will need to be checked. To do this, we need to open a notepad, which you need to run as administrator. We hope this will not cause difficulties, just look at the next picture.
After running the notepad on behalf of the administrator, you need to find the hosts file, by the path that we gave above. The following screenshot demonstrates this:
But if the contact does not open, then the following lines are probably added to the file:
Moreover, if you do not see anything like this, and the page in the contact does not open, then the virus probably wrote down its data below, as shown in the following picture:
As you understand, if the VKontakte site does not open, then you need to check the entire file. Next, we turn to countermeasures in the fight against the virus. Even if you fix the HOSTS file, you need to delete the virus itself. To do this, you need to use antivirus engines, links to which you can find on our page.
We hope that the instruction was useful and helped to find out why the VKontakte website does not open. That's all. If my vkontakte page does not open, describe the actions you performed, and describe the problem in the comments.
