DNS Works, Can Ping, Can't Surf except google.com

[not2stupid]

I can browse the internet but only to

http://www.google.com.

(gmail.com works also) Any other web ulr or ip adderss which I have tried return with no data on page.

Ping resolves DNS entries and return the correct ip address. Tracert works also. Ftp works.

Both ie & firefox produce same result.

Network Setup: Road Runner cable modem, netgear router/firewall
3 computers: 1 Computer Works Fine, 2 of them quit working on Wed 2/22/2005

Have XP SP2 installed on all 3: with incidents up to date prior to problem.
Have microsoft spyware removal and McAfee or Symantec on other. I can not longer do updates.

On 1 computer I have tried:
Restoring to System Restore Point
Firefox & Internet Explorer
Hooking a broken computer directly to the cable modem.
Microsoft spyware find nothing.
WinSockXPFix

I think I have a virus, or some other spyware that hasn't been identified.

Any thoughts?

 

[allteltec]

Long shot, but check your hosts file, So spyware is adding a lot of redirects there.

 

[SPV]

An equally long shot... Do you a software firewall installed (XP's own or 3rd party)? If so, could it have started blocking internet browse traffic?

 

[not2stupid]

The host files are empty except for localhost.
I have turned of the firewall and it makes no difference. :{

Using FTP within Firefox & Ie. I can telnet using port 80 and get a response from the server. I can't read it but it connects.

I can make an https connection to a site that supports https connections.

I think something it trapping incomming traffic.

 

[aquias]

You need to do a bit more on the spyware search side of this.

1. Run another spyware program (Spybot is my recommendation).

2. Run Hijack This! and identify what process', registry entries, etc... don't belong on your system and remove them.

3. Once you're able to connect to a site, run an online virus checker, something like Trend Micro.

 

[not2stupid]

It turns out it wasn't a virus. Although it seamed that it was the most likely problem.

I took the non-working laptop computer to a coffee shop with free internet. It worked fine. Which meant the problem had to be networking.

I called roadrunner tech support (They don't support LANs), so I hooked the desktop up. Still had the problem. They had me do the standard "shut up and reboot". So I rebooted the cable modem, and the computer. To my chagrine it started to work. (I had already done this, but this time it worked) There must have been someting messed up either in the cable modem or on there end that ended up fixing itself. I had plugged the network back in, but after rebooting a couple times, everthing is working again.

I am ran Trend Micro and it came back clean. (this is a good site to know about)

I feeling stupid, but at least I didn't let a virus in.

Thanks for everyones help.

 

[2ffat]

I was told by a Sprint tech that some modem/routers collect packet info. When the number of bad/dropped packets reach a certain number, the modem/router can't handle it and must be "rebooted" to clear the statistics table.



James P. Cottingham
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