Hello
Every now and then (usually happens every couple of hours) when I try to navigate to a website (doesn't matter what the site is, same result for many) Firefox tells me:
"The connection was refused when attempting to contact (site attempted).
Though the site seems valid, the browser was unable to establish a connection".
I can usually (but not always) ping the websites in question fine though, and MSN Messenger continues to work (often, but not always).
I don't have a firewall (minus the Windows inbuilt one which was turned off anyway). I've done a full system scan using AVG & AdAware and it returned nothing serious - just a handful of tracking cookies.
The only thing that restores my browsing abilities is a total restart of the computer. Restart of the router doesn't make any difference.
Same story with Chrome and IE.
Done fresh installs, cleared cache, and temp files (use CCLeaner frequently) and tried a new router.
No problems at my ISPs end (Static IP address isn't assigned to anyone else, for example)
At my wits end really, Google isn't helping.
Anyone got any ideas?
Every now and then (usually happens every couple of hours) when I try to navigate to a website (doesn't matter what the site is, same result for many) Firefox tells me:
"The connection was refused when attempting to contact (site attempted).
Though the site seems valid, the browser was unable to establish a connection".
I can usually (but not always) ping the websites in question fine though, and MSN Messenger continues to work (often, but not always).
I don't have a firewall (minus the Windows inbuilt one which was turned off anyway). I've done a full system scan using AVG & AdAware and it returned nothing serious - just a handful of tracking cookies.
The only thing that restores my browsing abilities is a total restart of the computer. Restart of the router doesn't make any difference.
Same story with Chrome and IE.
Done fresh installs, cleared cache, and temp files (use CCLeaner frequently) and tried a new router.
No problems at my ISPs end (Static IP address isn't assigned to anyone else, for example)
At my wits end really, Google isn't helping.
Anyone got any ideas?
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