Laptop freezes "Resolving host"...

Was recommended to forward this to you good folks by the Malware Removal board. Please see the link below for what's been going on so far--Can anyone here offer any further assistance? Thanks in advance!

http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=289447

Here's the original problem from my original post:

I've had my Gateway NE56R12u laptop with Windows 7 for a few years now with little to no problems until recently. I only use Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox for getting online. I'm not sure why, but recently, after I've been online for a while on either one, my laptop will freeze, with "Resolving host..." in the lower left corner. If I just let it go for a few minutes, thinking it will resolve host eventually, it doesn't, and I have to restart. I have CCleaner, Wise Care 365, and Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, but even after repeated scans, the problem remains. I also tried using the restore feature, but it doesn't seem to let me go back past a certain amount of time. Any ideas? Suggestions on a free malware cleaner that might help? Thanks so much in advance!

 

Thanks for the reply. It always appears in the lower-left by the Start button. It's not just a Chrome issue--it happens with Firefox, too. All the pages have that spinny-thing when I go to click a link on them and they don't go to whatever I clicked. I have to restart to get it going again.