[apapa]

Hi to all members,



a few weeks ago a strange problem occured. First of all i have a desktop pc with OS WinXP Pro which is almost new (October 2007). Suddenly when i was surfing on the net Firefox stopped, when I was trying to open a new page nothing happened (the application seems to be working, I can open a new tab but there is no traffic at all, like that I am disconnected). First I thought it was Firefox's problem but the same thing with IE and Opera (I am on a Lan). The next thing I did was to reboot, everything was fixed, I could surf again, but for a while (maybe an hour or so). After that I installed another pci network card (the other one is onboard) and another cable but nothing changed. I have to mention that every time I reboot everything comes to normal but when I press restart I have to wait for a couple of minutes, sometimes more, and some messages appear (i.e. Firefox is not responding press ok to end the application or the same for OE, of course both applications were shut down by me earlier in order to reboot). Any other application which doesn't need Internet access seems to work fine. Another strange thing is that I have Linux (Ubuntu 8.04) installed in the same pc, in the same HD and everything is working JUST FINE, even Firefox!!! I scanned everything with different antivirus, antispyware but nothing important came up. Sometimes the problem occurs after 5-10 minutes and sometimes, like yesterday, after several hours. I don't know what to do anymore. Any help or suggestion it would be more than useful.



Thanks in advance,



Alex

[Lexluethar]

Have you updated XP w/ the newest SP? Make sure you have all of the updates for Xp as well as Firefox, then see if the problem persists.

It also wouldn't hurt to perform a disk cleanup and defrag on your computer and those updates are installed. At that point restart and try again. If that doesn't solve the problem let us know.

[apapa]

Thanks for the reply (the only one), firewall was the problem. I had Commodo all the time (never changed). I shutted it down a few times but as it seemed traffic was already blocked and i thought that firewall was working ok. I unistalled commodo, even antivirus, and now I have all in one and everything is back to normal.