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Last answer on Oct 7, 2009 12:13:28 am BST Kharneth, on Sep 26, 2008 12:02:27 am BST 
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Hello,
Recently, my area had a wind storm, and I lost power for nearly a week. The power is back on now and it seems my computer is not able to browse the web (tried IE and FF3), although I am able to IM through MSN, AIM, Yahoo!, etc. and play online games such as WoW. My computer was perfectly fine before the power went out. My computer is connected to a Wireless network in the same room through a Netgear router connected to an Insight Broadband cable modem. I am pretty sure this is a problem with just my computer as I am able to browse the internet (and ask this question) on my parents computer and my mom's laptop, which all connect to the same router. I have found that I am also able to ping any website. Also, I am not able to system restore. This has been very troublesome for me for the past week since my power has been back on and I would love to fix it as soon as possible, as it is very inconvenient having to use my parents computer. Thanks to anybody who is willing/able to help!

My computer
Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Version 2002
Service Pack 3

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Configuration: Windows XP
Firefox 3.0.2

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rhyan, on Sep 26, 2008 2:14:22 am BST
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Check your browser configurations or proxies...

   
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Kharneth, on Sep 26, 2008 7:28:20 pm BST
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They have been set on "No Proxies" ever since I've had them, and they just recently stopped working...

   
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Leah, on Oct 27, 2008 3:56:59 pm GMT
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Wow. Okay. So this has been happening to me, too since probably Friday? I can use the internet browser through my Limewire though. Just sucks because I can only visit one website at a time (totally taken for granted until now). Through the limewire browser, I downloaded Firefox thinking that it would correct the problem. No. Neither browsers can connect and keep telling me I'm not connected at all. Yet yahoo and myspace messenger work, and my limewire can download and browse internet. Internet Explorer and both Firefox. My mom said it's probably a virus or trojan that closes down certain ports? And the one for my browsers to work is closed. I have no idea how that works. I'm running the full scan for Windows Defender right now, because that normally catches stuff. The Quick Scan didn't catch anything.

And I had zero outages. Everything had been running fine until I did a restart and it just wouldn't work.

   
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lin, on Nov 14, 2008 4:51:08 am GMT
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I have the same problem. A couple months ago I downloaded the Google browser, but no connection. Forgot about that idea thinking it must be a Google problem. Now, I tried Safari, which did work. Says it cannot connect. Tried iTunes. Cannot connect to the iTunes Store. Tried Quicktime. It is stuck at "loading...". Mozilla Firefox and IE work.
Please help!

   
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rancee, on Nov 22, 2008 4:12:03 pm GMT

Please check your tcp/ip configuration. Make sure that your ip was auto assigned by the router/switch. If you wish to have specific ip, just make sure to fill-in also the dns. It should work if you change it to auto-ip

   
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Marco Barragan, on Dec 20, 2008 5:20:14 pm GMT

Ok, is not that, every site where the people ask for this allways say: check your connection.. WRONG!! is a virus or something, because i have the same problem, and nobody knows about this.

First of all, try to press F8 when you turn on your PC, when menu appear, try "Safe Mode", check Control Panel--> Administrative tools->services and check if you have weird services with names like "eokinsdf" or something like that, i delete these services and the pc continue browsing after restart it in normal mode, but soon the problem appear again, AVG, Nod32, Norton, Panda nothing detect the virus, but is something bad there, and i don't have any idea how to delete it, if anybody have a TRUE answer, plz, put the information here.

   
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RHONNIE, on Dec 21, 2008 3:52:37 pm GMT

Hi... I've been fighting with my browser for over a week myself. I decided to see if I could connect using the ping address. I typed in 72.14.205.103 (google) and it worked. I closed the browser and re-opened, typed www.google.ca and it worked.

I have no idea why it worked but I'm happy to be online again. Here's hoping this will work for you too.

Rhonda

   
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Sameer, on Mar 8, 2009 3:07:38 pm GMT

Hahaha .... this one really word dude ... i m really surprise ... anyways thanks a loot ... and looooooong like Google ..... lollzzzz

   
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poco_loco, on Dec 21, 2008 8:09:18 pm GMT

Using AVG, Nod32, Norton, Panda like having no Antivirus.just try Kaspersky and hopefully you will be ok.

   
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Bryan007, on Jan 13, 2009 6:50:20 am GMT

Yup.. it's more likely spyware rather than a virus/worm.... Run a anti spyware scan and if it doesnt work, you might have to format and re-install the os! This worked for me, do more research on this before you proceed!

all the best

   
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1113456, on Jan 13, 2009 8:39:53 am GMT
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Are u on dynamic IP? if so try setting it to static!

   
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Rishyster, on Dec 23, 2008 3:24:16 am GMT

Well,

man u have to just check ur DNS settings might be it changed.I think it will solve ur problem. i dont think there is any virus problem.

best of luck.

   
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omega2fast4u, on Jan 17, 2009 3:07:18 am GMT
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Most of the Internet connectivity problems arise out of corrupt Winsock settings. Windows sockets settings may get corrupted due to the installation of a networking software, or perhaps due to Malware infestation. You will be able connect to the Internet, but the packets won't transfer back and forth. And errors such as Page cannot be displayed may occur when using Internet Explorer.

reset Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) in Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B­299357

   
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Sho, on Jan 27, 2009 1:30:08 pm GMT
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If its an XP, try restoring your system to a date before this problem started. This will fix the problem. It worked for me.

   
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sff, on Feb 16, 2009 4:01:53 am GMT

How you do that?

   
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SUNNY, on Apr 22, 2009 2:52:34 pm BST
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THANKS IT WORKS FOR ME

   
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socrd, on Apr 22, 2009 4:53:20 pm BST

You might also have conflicting or problematic link scanning/antivirus/malware software:

http://windowsfixup.com/2009/04/web-browsers-cannot-connect-­to-internet-fixes/

   
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Aido, on May 3, 2009 10:43:57 am BST
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Hi,

I had this problem where browsers would connect for while on start up but would lose there connection while other programs like skype and MSN were fine. Other computers connected to the same network also had no problems. I have seen many threads on many site with same problem and have tried everything. I have been using Zonealarm for probably over 5 years and never had problem so was reluctant to get rid of it but I started windows in safe mode and uninstalled Zonealarm and have had no problems since using Windows Defender.

   
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Ziggy, on May 21, 2009 10:28:08 pm BST
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I had this problem when AVG automatically upgraded. To solve, open the AVG coontrol panel and unselect the link checkers. Good luck!

   
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Benji + Emil, on Aug 16, 2009 3:47:58 pm BST

Thank you, this worked perfectly.

   
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 EBland, on Oct 7, 2009 12:13:28 am BST

Thank you Ziggy. You just saved my night!

   
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