[kemicalchef]

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. Thank You

[arcanehacker]

I doubt its anything to do with a virus.

Few possible solutions:
- Have you checked your connection settings?
- DNS not updated. Although its not possible since you have done PINGs ot sites.
- proxy issue.
- Firewall not allowing any programs to access the internet. Highly possible this is the problem.

[mahi_val]

Hi,
I'm not sure your problem still exists since I'm replying late.
I actually agree with what hacker has said only one thing I would like to add is since you are running XP which comes with inbuilt personal firewall, you could check it's settings to see if internet traffic (port 80) is blockled in it. You can check in administrative settings.

I have posted this reply thinking someone else might also benefit. I hope so.

[IExplosion]

Go into network settings and disable the network device, then re-enable. Then go into the command prompt and type ipconfig /flushdns and after that type ipconfig release and then right click on the network device and click repair.