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by edwin.hills

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When signing onto the internet I get a connection however IE6 keeps getting connection refused no matter where I try to surf on the big I (internet). I have uninstalled all connections both modem and NIC and reinstalled them still same problem. I have gone thru group policy and the registry virus scan with current updates etc. (too many things to list them all) I would appreciate someone who has had this exact problem and how they resolved it. I am a network admin so I'm pretty sure I've covered all my bases. I dont want to rebuild the system. Thanks

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by edwin.hills

Thanks but I had taken the machine out of the network completely and hooked it directly to my cable modem with no firewall.

by sgt_shultz

you can ping your dns's just can't surf? did you used to have ZoneAlarm installed? and you uninstalled it? yes: try reinstalling it...
try Netscape. everybody having this problem or just one machine?

by earnest

Try opening Tools>internet Options>Privacy>advanced>
Select Override Automatic Cookie handling and
Accept both first and third party cookies
and allow session cookies.

Hope this helps

by joseph moore

What about an intranet website? Can you install IIS on a machine on your LAN, and then see if this machine can hit the webpage on it? Just to rule out if it is a firwall/proxy/router ACL thing? This I would like to know if it works or not.
If it does work, then you know it is not the local machine. If it doesn't work, then it is probably a mangled Registry thing for IE. Maybe there is a phantom entry in the proxy server settings in the IE portion of the Registry:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings

Anyway, try the local LAN webserver first. Good luck

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