Internet Won't Work, Might Be A Virus
Hello Experts, Well here is the thing. I think I got a virus that did some damage to my computer settings, basically every time I try to connect to the internet it will say page not found. Also any program that tries to access the internet cannot connect at all. The weird thing is I can ping any site and the ping works fine, its whenever anything else tries to connect to the internet, by the way I'm on a LAN and I'm using Broadband. My question is, is there anywhere I can poke around in the registry to see if a setting was changed so that the computer thinks it has no connection to the net? Also I can browse my network fine, but as soon as I open IE says PAGE CANNOT BE DISPLAYED, or for instance if Norton tries to update itself if just says that there is no connection. BUT I CAN PING ANYONE I WANT FROM A DOS PROMP! This is so frustrating, replay if you have any idea what it might be. I'm running Windows XP SP1 Professional.
Internet Won't Work, Might Be A Virus
Have you gone through your internet connections to make sure they are set properly? That would be the best place to start before going to the registry.
Also have you tried an FTP site to see if it is just the HTTP port blocked?
If you are not sure about the settings - did you try contacting your ISP & let them walk you through it (without letting them know about the pingin - that will come a bit later). Also do you use Outlook to check your mail - does that work?
Corey
Internet Won't Work, Might Be A Virus
I tried connecting to an FTP and it said No Socket! And when I try to run a port scan on the comp it says no sockets. I think it might have something to do with windows winsocks stuff, do you know you to reinstall winsocks? On windows xp?
Thank You
Internet Won't Work, Might Be A Virus
When you go to your CMD Prompt and enter:
ipconfig /renew
What happens? When did this start - I mean did you uninstall something? Did you have McAfee Personal Firewall or another Firewall on there?
Corey