Web pages never load despite internet access on Vista

Web pages never load despite internet access on Vista A friend has asked me to have a look at his Vista laptop, which "can't connect to the internet".
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System Restore fixed it. I guess I will never know what exactly the problem was. My suspicions are that it had just had too many different Anti-Virus packages installed and uninstalled.

Guest [Entry]

"As a troubleshooting step, you can try making a manual HTTP request using telnet.

From the command prompt, do:

telnet www.google.com 80

Then in the open telnet window, type:

GET /

You won't see what you type, but after you hit enter you should get a (302) response from google.

If it fails, it's probably some kind of firewall trouble. If it succeeds, it's definitely a problem with IE and FF settings."