Do you have any firewalls running that may be blocking your internet connection?  McAfee is often the culprit.  If you have McAfee, try disabling the firewall and see if you can connect.

 

Steve

I have Norton Symantec personal firewall.  It is turned off permenately along with all other Symantec settings.  I have also restored all Advanced Settings on IE 7.0.  I am only able to view a Netflix.com and a local news website. 

 

I believe my troubles are due to the firewall, however after viewing their website support and following their steps for troubleshooting...I am still not able to view the sites.  Test sites include microsoft.com, dell.com and google.com.

 

My next step is to uninstall the Norton product using their uninstall software.  I have to burn the unistall program to a disk on a my non-Norton computer because their software is possibly the reason I can't view their own website and download directly to my  Norton computer.

I had a problem last week when I updated the Norton security software.  I could not get a web page but could do email.  After thinking it was an ISP issue I finally discovered that it was the Norton software.  I had to turn it off and go to the Norton site and update the software completly.  After doing that it worked fine.  Spent quite a bit of time on it before realizing it was the security software that was blocking everything. 

 

Not sure if this is a help but sure wish I had somebody tell me to look at the security software last week before I spent hours trying other things.