Help! My broswers don't work even though the internet conection is fine

Hello,
IE 7 doesn't work in my vista labtop even though the internet
connection is fine - putty and skype works fine.
Here are what I've tried.
1. Install Mozilla firefox -> Mozilla also gives an error message.
2. Installed spyware doctor start program which doesn't require registration. It detected some spyware and fixed it but the browsers still don't work.
3. Installed Ad-Aware 2007, but this didn't detect any spyware.
4. Installed "Broswer Hijack Recover". This says the problem is fixed
but I may need a IE CD then says the installation failed.
5. I downloaded IE7 and installed it. The installation seemed
successful but it still doesn't work. When I tried to remove program
in "Control Panel", IE 7 doesn't show up even after new IE7
installation.
6. Tried removing Mozilla and re-installing it but Mozilla still does't work

I'm getting really frustrated. Any help will be appreciated!!

 

Browser not working - tried the suggested steps

Hello,
My IE7 doesn't load any page even though the internet connection works (skype, putty, etc works). I noticed it this morning (2/13 around 10 am EST), and I didn't have the problem about 2 hours earlier than that. Nobody was using the computer during the 2 hours but the skype was on.

I tried all the steps in the page below but the browsers (IE7 or Mozilla) don't work. I installed Mozilla after I had problem with IE7.
http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=35407

Except I couldn't do the following - since the browser doesn't work I downloaded all the programs using my desktop and copied them to my labtop using USB. So I couldn't do the update for the programs below.
1) I couldn't finish the Spybot S&D Installing & Running since I got the error message below.
error sending request
A connection with the server could not be established.
2) I couldn't do the update for AVG Anti-Spyware, but went on and scan the labtop. It didn't find any spyware so I just didn't do the "Save Report As".

So I'm attaching the two files.
I'll really appreciate your help!!

 

Re: Browser not working - tried the suggested steps

I tried it and it WORKS!!!
Thank you so much! You guys are GREAT!!
While I was doing the system restore, I saw somebody wrote at yahoo.answer that he had the same problem and fixed it by system restore. Like he said it does look like a problem with MS auto update. rolleyes

 

Re: Browser not working - tried the suggested steps

Thank you for the advice. I turned the auto-update off.
By the way, I installed Mozilla browser but it doesn't work.. It doesn't really matter since I can use IE but I'm wondering if something happend before the MS update on 1/13 so I should do the system restore to the earlier point..

 

Re: Browser not working - tried the suggested steps

Hi
Yes I mean Mozilla Firefox. When I open it it says
"Unable to connect
Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at www.google.com
...
"
I tried a couple of other sites and they give the same results..

 

Re: Browser not working - tried the suggested steps

Yes the IE connect to google ok. I tried uninstalling FireFox, rebooting and then reinstalling but it still doesn't connect to any site that I tried..

Thanks