Ok here's my story.

Randomly several days ago, I notice I can't connect to any webcam sites and I noticed they all used flash: stickam.com, webcamnow.com, etc. They just REFUSED to connect to the chat rooms. So now I notice the other day my FPS online game Combat Arms won't connect either. (their servers are up). It hasn't been able to connect for days. Then I try Pokerstars, it won't connect either. Then I try Limewire, it won't connect. I downloaded countless trojan remover + virus software, avast, etc. It did find several trojans and supposedly removed them but I still couldn't connect to these programs that use the internet on my computer. My internet works fine, including my INSTANT messengers, just these programs that use internet WILL NOT connect! So I tried my laptop and wireless card last night (I have a Netgear router and DSL) the same programs on the laptop would not connect either!!! But the internet worked fine.

*I have disabled firewalls countless times, checked internet settings countless times, rebooted my modem countless times, I have updated my pc* I never touched anything to make this stop working one day.

so last night I formatted my entire PC. I used the system restore that comes built in gateway... only to find this morning, the programs still will not connect, nor will the webcam sites. my internet is working, AIM is working. I did not touch any settings, i've got all updates. and my other computer in the house will not connect to any of the programs either. i ran virus scans on the other computer and nothing was found.

could this trojan I had destroyed my entire network and somehow buried itself into my line? I mean, I formatted erasing everything and this same problem is still occuring. Im not even sure it was the trojan that caused it. I have no antivirus programs or firewalls on my PC now that could stop these programs from running... what should I do?!?!?! Is your modem connected to a router? What is the make and model of it?

yes. Netgear wgr614 v5. i tried connecting without the router and it didn't fix anything. this problem randomly fixed itself after I CAME back from eat n park and called verizon again. apparently they made changes to my account to upgrade me speed wise, and lower my price??? ok im not gonna complain, lol, i wish they would have told me, but im glad everything's running again.

cripe that was a pain in the *censored*.

-matt