I can only get secure internet now?

[bojovan]

For some reason I can only get secure internet connections, that includes messenger and my msn.com email. It will not connect to any regular sites...
I would greatly appreciate any and all help with this

[fink]

Could be that http port 80 is being blocked somehow. First temporarily bypass your firewall and see if that does it and then have a look in internet options>connections>LAN settings and see if there's been an http proxy added.... uncheck "use a proxy server....".

Do you have another browser installed that you can test out? Also try pinging a website by opening command prompt

start>run> [type] cmd....

then in the command prompt/dos window

[type] ping www.yahoo.com [enter]

and see if you get a response.

[bojovan]

I installed Mozilla Firefox and now I can surf the internet. This should give a clue to what is wrong with my IE. I would much prefer to us IE...Any ideas would be much appreciated

[crunchie]

Look up to post #2

[bojovan]

Look up to post #2

I don't understand what you are tryin to tell me

[crunchie]

I don't understand what you are tryin to tell me

Post #2= http://discussions.virtualdr.com/sho...55&postcount=2

[bojovan]

Could be that http port 80 is being blocked somehow. First temporarily bypass your firewall and see if that does it and then have a look in internet options>connections>LAN settings and see if there's been an http proxy added.... uncheck "use a proxy server....".

Do you have another browser installed that you can test out? Also try pinging a website by opening command prompt

start>run> [type] cmd....

then in the command prompt/dos window

[type] ping www.yahoo.com [enter]

and see if you get a response.

I was able to ping yahoo. Does that help solving my problem ?

[fink]

It's a small step, it means the computer can reach the site via it's own networking apps and it's not a system problem..

how about the proxy settings... did you check those?
Did you temp bypass the firewall to see if that worked?