Unable to browse

[Baggi]

Dear friends... My computer is a Lenovo 3000H...runs a Intel Pentium D processor...512MB RAM...Huawei Router...i use both opera and IE to browse. The router was working fine untill a few days back when I switched it on and waited for the LED's to light up...and after that I saw that my weather docklet did not update...so i repaired the connection...then too no change. So i turned the router off and turned it back again and tried to browse but bith opera and IE were unresponsive...i intalled mozilla but even that failed. I turned on utorrent and voila! it was downloading normally...turned on skype it worked normally....gtalk and yahoo did not work....AVS virus update did not connect.

Thinking it might be recent s/w change i reinstalled xp sp2 pro from my OEM. Then too no change....utorrent works...skype works but nothing else does.

Can anyone help me out...because i have to activate my windows in another 29 days but can't go online :-(.

 

[kimsland]

i reinstalled xp sp2 pro from my OEM. Then too no change....utorrent works...skype works

I'm a bit confused about this line

Did you do a clean install of Windows ? (ie format first)
Did you try IE before loading uTorrent ? (file sharing program)

It sounds as though you still may have Spyware/Trojans and Windows could be still corrupt.

You will need to clean install Windows and try Internet Explorer straight away

 

[DelJo63]

the SP2 update is just that, an update which does not require a format/reinstall of
XP.

the big change to SP2 is in the new firewall and the impact to Print/File sharing, not browsing.

use these tests to verify your TCP settings allow Internet access.
if these work, then it's browser settings or browser hijacking

 

[Bobbye]

I'd also like to suggest that you bypass the router and see if you can connect. If you can, then your router has gone bad.

 

[Baggi]

Thanks

Thanks a lot for your replies dear friends. My ISP had changed the DNS server details so that was the reason for the mess up. I called them and blasted them for that. Can you believe it? They change the DNS server and don't inform the customers. Damn them.

 

[DelJo63]

hum; did you manually config the DNS? A DHCP setup would have corrected that
without issues.