Can Only Access A Few Sites...Any Advice?
 

Hey guys...I'm running Vista (that is a prob in itself) through an ethernet Dlink wired modem/router on a 6Mb connection with Cox. Have been for the past four or five years. And then yesterday, completely out of the blue, my internet broke. Symptoms:

- Can only get onto a few other sites, and those seem totally random (and intermittent). Google searches work fine, but I can't go to any of the links except for the very few exceptions. Interestingly it is the same sites that work each time, but it's about 1 in 50.
- It's not my connection - my Outlook is working just fine, as is are my other 2 computers.
- I've not installed anything at all, or fiddled around with any settings or anything. I've ran virus scans and spyware scans and am getting nothing alarming.

It's been like this all day now, and today I tried a bunch of measures to make it work, none of which did anything:

- Uninstalled Mcafee
- Cleared all temporary internet files
- Checked settings on IE and Firefox

Anybody have anything like this before? I'm thinking it might be a firewall issue somewhere, but so far nothing looks to be changed.

ARGGG!

Check the contents of this file frst of all: c:\winsucks\system32\etc\host
(it should be clean, as in; except for the preluding comments only contain 1 line for localhost/127.0.0.1)

Go through ALL the setting in Your Router, it's possible it's been slightly hacked... and if so, the issue may be traffic filtering set up, port forwarding, DNS and what not.

If it's none of that, and Your workstation is completely clean from e-bugs... I'd direct suspicions towards Your ISP.

I had a problem like that a while back.

As I recall I disabled the firewall on my router then reactivated it.