Quote Originally Posted by sledger View Post
You may have a corrupt winsock setting. I have had a number of PC's come to mw in the past that have been (initially) unable to get certain websites for no obvious reason. Eventually they are unable to get an WAN access (commonly they are still able to connect to LAN clients)

The easiest way to reset the winsock is through the use of a free utility:

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/winsockxpfix.html
Thanks sledger - I will give anything a try at this point - Tom