Need help with my browsers. They keep disconnecting.

[emblem]

I don't know if this is the right board for this question.


Since monday every couple hours I'll just randomly lose connection to my web browsers. FF and IE won't let me open any pages. It just gives me a page saying no connection. All other application that uses internet works on my computer. aim, downloading things, etc.. All that is always working but my web browsers just randomly lose connection and I have to restart my computer. Anyone have this happen to them?

I recently just restarted my pc due to the same thing happening again. What happened? none of my browsers would load ANYTHING. I uninstalled FF and got the installation file of ff from my friend through aim, installed FF again and nothing changed.

Restarted pc again and browser is working. For how long? Who freaking knows. I have no idea what's wrong. I really don't want to reformat.

I don't know if it's a driver issue or not.

Realtek RTL8168B/8111B Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC (NDIS 6.0)

I looked for any update to the driver and there was no new one. I rolled back to a previous one and no change.

I don't know what the hell is wrong.

 

[Quiksilver]

Sounds like you got yourself a virus or some spyware that is blocking port 80. Do a virus and spyware scan it should be solved.

 

[emblem]

I did spyware check already with SpyBot S&D. Found nothing.

Is there a certain spot on my hardrive I can maybe scan or something?

 

[George P Burdell]

1. Do you have a firewall and/or virus scanner running in the background?
2. What OS are you running?
3. What ISP are you on?

 

[emblem]

I have Avast running in the background.

Using Windows Vista 32 bit

I have verizon dsl

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

Try pinging when that happens.

 

[Quiksilver]

Originally posted by: emblem
I have Avast running in the background.

aVast doesn't detect everything, I've had virii get passed it before. I'd give AVG or Avira a try (Idk if Avira works with vista tho)

 

[emblem]

I just got back from work. I'm about to download AVG.

If it happens again i'll try the pinging thing. Like pinging a website through the cmd right?

 

[Canai]

I'm on Charter, and I lose connection all the time. I've called them half a dozen times to complain about it, and all they did was stick me on dynamic IP, which did nothing. I think it may be the cable modem they provided me with, but they have refused to give me a new one.

 

[ShawnD1]

My friend's computer would time-out at least half the time when browsing web pages. The problem went away when I uninstalled all of the Sony and Apple bullshit he had on the computer.

Software related to external hardware tend to cripple a system if programmed by idiots. I wouldn't be one bit surprised if your network problems were caused by software that came with your ipod, psp, smart phone, or pda.