Explorer/Modem Troubleshooting

[PilotMan]

Within the past couple of days I have had a problem accessing the internet on my main computer. The modem connects, but pages that are unsecured do not load at all. They hang on the " Waiting for web reply" message. If I go to a secure page it loads fine. I have run my gamut of Panda AV, Ad-Aware, and Spybot, and I get no hits, and this happeded with no other external indications. It is very confusing. My settings in Exploer seem to be fine, so I can't figure out what the problem is.

Other programs that do not use Explorer are also unable to access their respective sites. My first order of business is to try another browser, and if that doesn't work, try a new modem, and if that doesn't work, I guess I am looking at a disk reformat.

Does anyone have any other ideas to try? Or have any idea what is going on here?

[cougarfreak]

I'd go for firefox. Have you contacted your internet provider? What are your securities on internet set on?

[PilotMan]

Well, I just tried Firefox, and it didn't remedy my problem. My next step is to grab a new modem and swap it out, hopefully that should solve the problem. I am really leaning to this being the problem, but it would be the first modem that has crapped out on my in 13 years.

At this point I don't think that it is a browser problem because of the Firefox check, and that my AV can't get in to update itself either, and it doesn't use IE at all. I don't think that it is a server/ISP problem because I am on here from my laptop, on the same access number, in the same house, and it works just fine.

Does all this sould like logical thinking?

[Airhog]

Check your hosts file. It doesnt sound like its your modem though, since you can still connect to secure hosts.

[PilotMan]

Where would I check that, and what would I look for.

[Airhog]

do a search for the files hosts. There really shoulnt be any items in there except
now there may be other lines in there, which is fine, but if there are a ton of lines, especially sites you have problems with, it could be your problem.
127.0.0.1 localhost

[Airhog]

dola, you might try this

goto start then run and type in sfc /scannow
This will check your critical files and make sure nothing is corrupted