email works fine but can't access the web

[Guest]

I can send and recieve email fine (thunderbird and outlook) but IE and
firefox both return 'cannot display the webpage' or 'cannot connect'
messages. This happens both at home and college. Both connections are fine as
have tested with other machines.
Anyone have any ideas?

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

I can send and recieve email fine (thunderbird and outlook) but IE and
firefox both return 'cannot display the webpage' or 'cannot connect'
messages. This happens both at home and college. Both connections are fine as
have tested with other machines.

Please check this with http://winhlp.com/wxnet.htm . (Please use
IE for this page.) One guess would be Winsock corruption through
some kind of third party software, possibly adware.

Hans-Georg

 

[Guest]

Thanks, it did turn out to be a winsock problem - maybe caused by a bad
firewall installation in the past. I used a program called WinSock XP Fix,
which sorted it all out.
Thanks

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

Thanks, it did turn out to be a winsock problem - maybe caused by a bad
firewall installation in the past. I used a program called WinSock XP Fix,
which sorted it all out.
Thanks

Great! Good luck for the future.

Hans-Georg