Connected but can't browse web

[brennenpkt]

I have a pc which I recently upgraded from 2000 to windows XP sp2. After finally working out what I thought were the last of my issues with the upgrade I come to find that I cannot browse the web. I am able to ping websites as well as send email but I get a "search page cannot be opened" when I attempt to browse.
I have IE6 as well as FireFox installed on the pc and both cannot browse. I have run Microsofts Anti-spyware and it did not find anything. Also in searching this site I can accross a winsock fix app and ran that as well but it did not fix it. I know for a fact that other computers can brows on the same network. Any thoughts or comments would be greatly appreciated.

 

[FAM]

Are you pinging via an ip address or the websites domain name?

 

[BabyJeffy]

I get a "search page cannot be opened" when I attempt to browse

You know... when I see this I immediately think this machine is not acting as I would expect... why is it trying to open some search page?

I bet you that you have a "really handy toolbar" or some such "add-on" that has insinuated itself into the inner workings of IE.

Give the Lavasoft Ad-aware software a go and see if it picks up anything you may have missed with other tools.

Cheers,
Jeff

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[brennenpkt]

I am able to ping website domain names such as yahoo.com or google.com.

I have also run microsoft's anti spyware and cleaned up any reminents of adware. I will infact try to run Lavasofts ad-aware to see if I missed anything.

I am leaning towards it not being an Ie problem being that I installed Firefox and recieved the same results.

Your thoughts are much appreciated.

 

[brennenpkt]

I figured out the issue. It seems that Norton Internet Security did not like the upgrade. I believe my http traffic was being routed to a proxy that was set up by Norton. Once I uninstalled Norton Internet security I was able to browse the web. Thanks for your help.