> A friend of mine has a laptop that runs Vista.
> Recently, they have become unable to get web pages to load on their
> machine.  They get a "connectivity error."  I had them test
a few other
> things.  They are not able to get pages via IE or Firefox, and are not able
> to telnet anywhere.

    Can they telnet to an IP, rather than a domain name?


> However, they can PING other "foreign" systems fine, and
they are able to
> get updates via Windows update and (I think) Jave update.

    If they can PING other systems, then likely there's no issue with the basic
networking.   Sounds like there is an issue with DNS & I agree with Rusty, it
sounds like malware...   




Jame

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