No Browsers work; Telnet to URL 80 doesn't work; Ping to URL works

I have a difficult situation that no manner of fixes, upgrades, etc. seems
to fix. I'm trying to understand how this might happen so I might focus
attention on the right things:

Windows XP SP3 (was SP2 with same symptoms)

IE7 AND Firefox 3 - both are affected equally.

telnet www.google.com 80 works on other computers but not on this one. Gets
a connection failure.

Diagnosing the connection sometimes comes up with a Winsock catalog issue.
I've reset the winsock catalog a number of times. netsh winsock reset
catalog.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Fred

Is it only telnet Google.com or all web sites? Do you have proxy server to
bock accessing web sites? Or this search result may help.
You can ping any web sites but not access them
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"Fred Marshall" <fmarshallx@remove_the_x.acm.org> wrote in message
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>I have a difficult situation that no manner of fixes, upgrades, etc. seems
>to fix. I'm trying to understand how this might happen so I might focus
>attention on the right things:
>
> Windows XP SP3 (was SP2 with same symptoms)
>
> IE7 AND Firefox 3 - both are affected equally.
>
> telnet www.google.com 80 works on other computers but not on this one.
> Gets a connection failure.
>
> Diagnosing the connection sometimes comes up with a Winsock catalog issue.
> I've reset the winsock catalog a number of times. netsh winsock reset
> catalog.
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Fred
>

"Fred Marshall" <fmarshallx@remove_the_x.acm.org> wrote in
news:#ZQRjoHBJHA.3972@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl:

> I have a difficult situation that no manner of fixes, upgrades,
> etc. seems to fix. I'm trying to understand how this might happen
> so I might focus attention on the right things:
>
> Windows XP SP3 (was SP2 with same symptoms)
>
> IE7 AND Firefox 3 - both are affected equally.
>
> telnet www.google.com 80 works on other computers but not on this
> one. Gets a connection failure.
>
> Diagnosing the connection sometimes comes up with a Winsock
> catalog issue. I've reset the winsock catalog a number of times.
> netsh winsock reset catalog.
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
>

Sometimes LSPFix will correct this kind of problem.

<http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm>

HTH,
John

Robert L. (MS-MVP) wrote:
> Is it only telnet Google.com or all web sites? Do you have proxy
> server to bock accessing web sites? Or this search result may help.
> You can ping any web sites but not access them

All web sites. Neither any browser or
telnet [url] 80
will work.
Nor browsing to the IP address
Nor:
telnet [IP] 80

Yes, that is the problem they describe.