Can't connect to the internet

[JTG51]

That's not exactly true. I just can't connect with a browser. I tried IE and Mozilla. I get "The page cannot be displayed" and "The connection was refused". But I can play poker without any trouble. And I have no problems with my laptop.

I installed Norton Internet Security a few days ago. I haven't had any problems until tonight, and as far as I know nothing has changed. I tried turning off the firewall, but that didn't help.

Any suggestions? Thanks.

[TheTROLL]

From a command prompt (Start/Run/cmd) type

telnet www.apache.org (http://www.apache.org) 80

and hit return. Does the screen go blank with a flashing cursor, or does it just hang for a bit then tell you it cannot connect?

If it goes blank, put caps lock on (unless you've changed a telnet setting the text you type next won't appear on screen) then type the following (there's a space either side of the first backslash and no others):

GET / HTTP/1.0

and hit return twice. Do you get a load of markup text returned?

[JTG51]

The problem seems to have fixed itself. Thanks for the help anyway.