I'm guessing it's Windows (no version?) because of the tools noted. There is also no word of what the hardware connection is. (Cable, dsl, router.)
As such I can only offer one little tool I'd try given so little to work with. Go get WINSOCKFIX and run that to push the settings back to stock.
Bob
I recently encountered a problem and my computer could not connect to internet suddenly. I had tried to turn off firewall and AV softwares but it didn't help. I finally managed to get on line after deleting the line of Localhost (i.e. 127.0.0.1 localhost) in the Host file. There were nothing wrong with my firewall and AV softwares (Kaspersky Internet Security 6.0), as they worked O.K. AV, SpybotSD and Ad-aware 2007 scans did not indicate my computer had been stoned or hacked or whatever it had happened to my computer. I think to myself it is weir to delete the line of localhost before I can get on line. Is there anyone in this forum who can give me some advice on my problem. Many thanks in advance.
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Wolfgang0

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