Can't Access Web Sites

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News Groupie

I cleaned some spyware stuff with SpyBot & Ad-Aware and now I can't access
any web sites in IE nor FireFox, but I can still log on to AIM and browse my
home network and iTunes store. I ran into this problem before, but I don't
remember how I fixed it (or if I did fix it). How do I fix this?

TIA
 
M

MAP

News said:
I cleaned some spyware stuff with SpyBot & Ad-Aware and now I can't
access any web sites in IE nor FireFox, but I can still log on to AIM
and browse my home network and iTunes store. I ran into this problem
before, but I don't remember how I fixed it (or if I did fix it). How
do I fix this?

TIA
Click to expand...

Use another computer to access this site and download this fix to a floppy
LSP-fix- http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm
 
N

NotMe

This usually works for your problem...it's the LSP/Winsock bug...
Spyware had infected the Layered Security Protocol/Winsock layer and after
removal, LSP/Winsock is no
longer configured properly.
To fix
Start>run>cmd
type
netsh winsock reset
reboot
IE/Firefox

you can Google "LSP" as well for a software patch for pre-XP systems.
 
N

News Groupie

Thanx, but that didn't solve anything. 0 items removed, 0 items renumbered.

I notice in IE with some sites it seems like it's going to open. It goes
from the domain to the start page (i.e. www.nfl.com, then status bar says
'Downloading from site...', then 'opening' www.nfl.com/somecrap/main.html)
but then IE spits an error "Internet Explorer could not open the search
page."

so it can reach the outside, but it stops loading with that error.

Any ideas???

TIA
 
N

News Groupie

that didn't work either.

Any other ideas?

NotMe said:
This usually works for your problem...it's the LSP/Winsock bug...
Spyware had infected the Layered Security Protocol/Winsock layer and after
removal, LSP/Winsock is no
longer configured properly.
To fix
Start>run>cmd
type
netsh winsock reset
reboot
IE/Firefox

you can Google "LSP" as well for a software patch for pre-XP systems.
Click to expand...
 
N

News Groupie

okay. now i can access the web, but some specific sites are not opening.

any ideas??
 

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