Hello everyone,

I am new to this forum. In fact, just only discovered this site while searching thru Google. My problem is:

Recently (about 1-2 weeks ago) my IE7 and Messenger stopped working. I have not been able to connect to either. I have ALWAYS worked fine with both until this time. The error message that shows up in Messenger says that I am not able to connect. As for IE7, it just doesn't show anything... no error message nothing.

As a result, I downloaded Firefox 2.0.0.4 in order to try and browse, but that doesn't work either. The status bar remained at a minimal, and after some time, stops loading, saying that is "Done" but with a blank page.

I know that my internet connection works fine, because emule still works. Subsequently downloaded Seamonkey and I can browse the internet again.

Been tweaking with the Firewall (windows), mcafee allowing ACCESS to all the said programmes, but nothing.

I work on Win XP SP2, P4 3ghz, 1 gb ram. My anti virus is up to date, and windows automatic UPDATE switched on, tune up utilities 2007.

Please help.

Thank you!

EvanWhat happened before this started?Hi

Everything worked like normal. Then one weekend, failed to connect to hotmail, messenger, internet. But emule was still running.

Tried rebooting, nothing. Also lately (before this started) everytime that I tried going in to the internet it seems like my adsl connection would pop up.

That would be the only strange that had happenedHi everyone,

Just to inform you that this problem I had has now been resolved.

It was Mcafee (my anti virus) that was CAUSING all the problems... blocking all the accesses to ie7, firefox and messenger. I only happened upon this by chance as i was installing a new anti virus. So after removing mcafee, and installing nod32, viola, every worked again as if nothing happened.

So thank you for trying to help.

chinaman-in-spain