I’ve have a real strange issue; SP3 was forced upon me by windows update, thats right, I was not given the cusotm option to deselect SP3, it just installed it… here is the problem.
Zone Alarm quit working after the SP3 install so I switched to Avast and Comodo.. Avast worked fine but with Comodo my ability to go to websites through IE7 became problamatic, I could disable Comodo and everything seeemed to work. I installed PCTools firewall which btw works great, no issues, now when I open IE7 and or Firefox I can go to sites, if I start Windows Live Messenger IE7 and Firefox stop working, page not found or network connection errors. Everything else that needs or wants Internet access works such as outlook, outlook express, windows update through help and support, etc. I can shut down WLM, wait a minute and IE7 and Firefox work fine.
Anyone have any ideas on this one?