Hiya folks ltns.

having problems with browsers this week. Windows Vista Home Premium service pack 1.

Both firefox and IE are freezing up and computer will not reboot without taking out the power.

The message says .... "www.google.com" is not set up to establish a connection on port "world wide web service (http)" with this computer.

The www.google.com is interchangeable with whatever site I have tried to access.

msn messenger doesn't always freeze up at the same time, and if I am playing a web game that window doesn't always freeze either ....

Another problem with the same computer is that firefox.exe doesn't always close out of the processes running even manually. this stops me from using ccleaner and also from shutting down the computer.

Are these problems related? Have you any ideas on how to stop this?