So right now i am unable to access a load of sites on the internet.
www.facebook.com
www.download.com
Whilst im unable to login to snitz forums
www.civ3duelzone.com
and can't search on google, i can get to the google mainpage but am unable to search.
In all cases (except CDZ) i can type in the address and hit enter but the tab just is constantly loading, with either whatever i had there previously or a blank screen. This is the same on firefox as on IE, i havent tried any other browsers but i think it is a problem on my computer. In the case of cdz, i can access everything there just unable to login, whenever i enter my password and hit enter the screen just moves on to a blank screen and when i refresh i'm back where i started.
Weirdly i am able to access some sites, here (obviously), hotmail, bbc.co.uk. But many of the sites are extremly slow to load. And occasionally google lets me search.
The only firewall i have is windows defender and i have the resident spybot thing running, i've attempted to turn both off and still i have no access to any of the sites.
I've run spybot, got rid of everything- even going as far as to unimmunizing everything and uninstalling spybot before trying and still no luck then re-installing. I've run AVG, it told me i had a couple of trojans and virus loaders but they were deleted. I've uninstalled firefox and attempted to use an earlier version, i've tried running firefox in safe mode but still no joy.
I'm not sure if its connected but throughout the day i've had a notifier saying that auto updater was not on, even after i checked and made sure it was. However, whilst writing it suddenly worked.
I'm getting tonnes of error messages from within the error console from firefox but as i've never really looked there before im unsure if thats normal.
So anyway, any advice would be greatly appreciated because i am pretty much all out of ideas. (hopefully its something obvious)
edit- and yeah i've tried rebooting
edit2- I'm on windows xp home edition
www.facebook.com
www.download.com
Whilst im unable to login to snitz forums
www.civ3duelzone.com
and can't search on google, i can get to the google mainpage but am unable to search.
In all cases (except CDZ) i can type in the address and hit enter but the tab just is constantly loading, with either whatever i had there previously or a blank screen. This is the same on firefox as on IE, i havent tried any other browsers but i think it is a problem on my computer. In the case of cdz, i can access everything there just unable to login, whenever i enter my password and hit enter the screen just moves on to a blank screen and when i refresh i'm back where i started.
Weirdly i am able to access some sites, here (obviously), hotmail, bbc.co.uk. But many of the sites are extremly slow to load. And occasionally google lets me search.
The only firewall i have is windows defender and i have the resident spybot thing running, i've attempted to turn both off and still i have no access to any of the sites.
I've run spybot, got rid of everything- even going as far as to unimmunizing everything and uninstalling spybot before trying and still no luck then re-installing. I've run AVG, it told me i had a couple of trojans and virus loaders but they were deleted. I've uninstalled firefox and attempted to use an earlier version, i've tried running firefox in safe mode but still no joy.
I'm not sure if its connected but throughout the day i've had a notifier saying that auto updater was not on, even after i checked and made sure it was. However, whilst writing it suddenly worked.
I'm getting tonnes of error messages from within the error console from firefox but as i've never really looked there before im unsure if thats normal.
Error: uncaught exception: Permission denied to get property HTMLDivElement.parentNode
So anyway, any advice would be greatly appreciated because i am pretty much all out of ideas. (hopefully its something obvious)
edit- and yeah i've tried rebooting

edit2- I'm on windows xp home edition