ascwab

Ok, so this all began when the newest firefox version was released over a month ago. My firefox stopped connecting. I assumed it was a firewall or something to that matter, and I turned the windows one off and it solved nothing, as well as making sure it was not being blocked by it either. Neither worked. So i resorted to IE7 for now. After about a week later, IE7 stopped connecting and saying the same thing. I did all the same crap and nothing worked. (I have reinstalled both numerous times). In the end I had to do a system restore and I put it back to before it stopped working. Firefox still didnt work but IE7 did. About a week later, again, it stopped working. So yet again I did system restore and got it going again. Same thing...and again did system restore. After the 3rd time, I noticed that windows downloads some update and restarts the comp, and then IE7 does not work. Currently it works due to system restore yesterday. Is there any suggestions on how to get firefox and IE7 working as firefox still does not and I am tired of doing system restores? I do not know how to find out what that update did or why it causes it to stop working...so any help would be great because I am beyond frustrated with this, and the last forum I was on just skipped over this and continued with other topics.

I do have Symantec Antivirus v10.2, and I do there is no firewall I could find on that program.

Thanks for any help that you can give