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DBDON   02-23-2004 at 06:53:37 PM

My Windows XP PC will no longer browse the web nor will it connect to my other windows 98 PC. I have had both PC's happily connecting to the web via my ADSL router and connecting to each other. bizarely my XP machine can still download & upload email from a pop3 server & I can ping websites. All that is changed is I have had trouble with my firewall (freedom) recently. I have tried all sorts of un-installing & re-installing my firewall but still no luck. Any ideas? Am I just being thick? Sounds like something obvious but I can't find it. Its not a virus either as I've done a full scan.

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jlanka   02-24-2004 at 04:21:53 PM
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what happens when you try to ping the win98 PC?

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DBDON   02-27-2004 at 10:41:03 AM
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I can't ping the Win98 PC - But I can Ping a website!!

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jammydodger   02-27-2004 at 01:37:37 PM
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What router are you using? Try clearing your temporary internet files. Can you ping your router from the XP machine?

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jlanka   02-27-2004 at 03:07:07 PM
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that makes no sense. What message do you get back when you try to ping the 98 machine? What is the address of the router and the other 2 boxes? What message do you get when you try to ping the router?

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Jill   03-02-2004 at 09:40:03 PM
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Deinstall the software firewall completely. You shouldn't need it anyway if the router has firewall facilities, (most do). When I first set up my network I could get out, but couldn't share folders or printers because the software firewall, (ZoneAlarm), was blocking the traffic.

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DBDON   03-05-2004 at 09:51:49 AM
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Thankyou for your comments!!
I have had some degree of success in that I am now able to browse the web from my XP machine. As suggested I did this with a "kill -9" of my firewall (Freedom). But had to root out every last bit of it in the Registry. Still cannot browse the network though. When I try to ping each machine it just times out

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