Strange issue with Intel iMac

We have no issues accessing sites from most computers at our workplace. However on the iMacs (Intel based) some sites will not load. I get the error message:
Safari can’t open the page “web-site here” because it could not connect to the server “server here”.
Again all other computers on the network can access them fine....and this computer can access other sites fine....
I have tried:
1.) Resetting Safari
2.) Re-installing the OS
All to no avail. Any ideas or information is welcome!

As nerowolfe said, you might check your hosts file. Open your finder window and then Go>Go to Folder and type in "/etc" (without the quotes) and you should be able to browse to the hosts file. Make sure it doesn't have any extra hosts (could have happened if the iMacs were installed using a remote install or some sort of cloning system).
Following is from my /etc/hosts file and may not reflect yours, but you're going to be looking for things with the exchangebankonline.com in them. May not solve your problem but it's a place to start. Let us know if this wasn't the problem and we'll go from there.
Cheers.
/etc/hosts
# Host Database
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting. Do not change this entry.
127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1 localhost
fe80::1%lo0 localhost
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