Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage, Google, Gmail, Youtube, Firefox home page, Live.com, Msn and possibly more sites more won't load

Yes I have

First thing to figure out is whether it's your machine, or your ISP, or your ISP's DNS servers.  

Do you have another PC you could try, utilizing the same connection to determine whether it's a setting in your PC?

Alternatively (this is not QUITE as good), can you create a new user account on your existing PC, and try surfing to those sites from that account?  

To rule out your ISP's DNS servers, try manually setting your PC to use a different set of DNS servers - for example, those at opeDNS:  208.67.220.220 and 208.67.222.222

Alright, so I tested it out on another computer in the house. It seems like it might be a problem with my machine. Google.com works on the other computer.

As for ISP DNS server, I have no idea how you manually set the PC to use a different set of dns server.

However, it seems like it doesn't have anything to do with my ISP since the other computer will load the page.

Good, the problem is being narrowed down.

Since your other computer will load these pages, we know, as you say, that it's not your ISP.  So the next step is to determine whether it's DNS-related.  To find out, get the NUMERIC IP address for one of the problem sites.  You can do this by using the WORKING computer to ping one of the problem sites, by opening up a command prompt, and typing, for example:

ping www.google.com

You'll get a numeric IP address, something like 208.67.219.230

Now, go to the problem-child machine, and, in your browser, enter http://208.67.219.230 (or whatever IP address your working machine gave you for google.)

If you get the google homepage, then the problem is DNS related, and we know where to go next.  If you don't, then it's more likely malware related.

Alright I did this and it lead me to Google English. However when I try to type anything in and press Search, it will lead me back to the same "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" page.

So it is sounding DNS-related.  If you go to
Control Panel/Network Connections, select your connection, and right-click on it, and choose Properties,
then select Internet Protocol TCP/IP, and click the Properties button, what do you see in the lower box, the one talking about DNS servers?

Hmm.. see attatched picture

Go to advanced, and delete that 0.0.0.0 default gateway (by clicking the Remove button)  so that default gateway is blank, instead of zeroes.  That would pretty much be your problem, I think.

Also just to add, for some sites I visit it shows a really messed up page + images don't load.

For example if I go to Flickr.com, or search something on yahoo, the result is a web page without any order, like theres no stylesheet or something. It just shows a white page with alot of links instead of showing the nice background and link colors, font, etc. It started around the same time google started not to work, so are these two things perhaps related? Malware? Virus? ( probably not becuase I just scanned my computer, no virus found ) Spyware?

Jason

Sorry to say - but it didn't work. It still shows up with the internet explorer cannot be displayed

With your default gateway set to zeroes, I'm surprised that you're getting out on the net at all...It may be that all you're seeing is portions of webpages that are cached on your system, from previous visits.  See what happens when you get rid of those zeroes...

Then it's sounding like malware or spyware, or you're screwing yourself with over aggressive firewalling (like what Spybot or Zonealarm does sometimes).

Uh oh, when i remove the 0's nothing else works at all. I'll be suprised if i can even post this comment.

How do I add back the 0's because it won't allow me to?

And i can no longer refresh this page or else it won't load and I'll be screwed over for good.

and I think I have to post to see the updates

This is extremely wierd .. I can ONLY refresh experexchange.com. All my other web pages when I refresh they turn into the "Internet cannot display ... " page

1) first go to start | Run and type:
 ping yahoo.com
if you get a message like
Reply from 69.147.76.15: bytes=32 time=331ms TTL=42
it's ok with your connection and go to step 2.
otherwise check your modem, connection properties and other things and make sure your ISP doesn't have any problem.
2) Open Internet Explorer, go to Tools, manage add-Ons and disable any add-on which installed by third party vendors. clear your history and delete all the files, cookies and etc.
It may work.

ping yahoo.com

                                              

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Hmm it says Request timed out.
You know what, this is what I'm going to do and I'll see if it works or not.

I'm going to 1) system restore and then 2) unplug/replug my modem.

I'll be back in a bit with the results.

do you access the internet from the same copmuter which got request timed out??

Yeah

Okay, be right back doing system restore

Jason

Okay.. nothing happened. But at least I can go to google.co.uk now ......

NOTHING HAPPENED ... any suggestions / possible solutions would be appreciated? Raising point value .. I'm tired

switch to firefox. it's safer, quicker and more convenient than IE. ;)
did you try clean your cookies, offline files, history and disable any additional add-Ons?

@Majidhajal

I tried using 5 different browsers.. and none of them work. I think its something blocking my connection to these sites, but I can't access my firewall since I forgot my password to it.

If there's anyway to get rid of the password to the firewall I could check to see if it really is the firewall's problem.

PS IM USING COMMODO FIREWALL + WONT LET ME UNINSTALL WITHOUT PASSWORD / CHANGE ANYTHING OR EVEN ACCESS IT WITHOUT A PASSWORD ANYHELP
Jason

Okay uhm, going to sleep for today.. I'll check back tomorrow
Many thanks guys ..

Bye
Jason

You know what, I'm going to reformat my computer .. just so if there's any problems with WHATEVER - it will be solved. Thanks alot guys for your time but mostly to akahan since he tried to help me out the most.

Jason

First try to ping Google.com this will say what about your DNS service and firewall and networkpath if this success then it will be matter of browser if it didn't i will provide you with IP of google to be test if it succeded then it was proplem of DNS if not then it was problem of network or firewall ......

I have the same problem.  I can ping Google.com.  How do I fix my browser.