And, thank you, Robert. I don't use all these tools being the one and only
personal home/office UNHEARD of USER typecast. LOL.
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"Robert Aldwinckle" wrote:

> (cross-post added to Vista Networking)
> "Jason Hudson" <JasonHudson@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:F5E2254E-19E2-4E0E-AA6A-51AD16A057AF@microsoft.com...
> >I just got a new machine from Acer and it came with Vista Home Basic installed.
> >
> > I can connect to the Internet via my dial up account and Internet Explorer
> > will go out there and I can surf all day long. However, Internet Explorer is
> > the only thing that will connect. My iTunes will not connect and when I try
> > to sync to the iTunes server, it immediately cuts me off and says the server
> > is unavailable. Mozilla FireFox won't connect to my home page (yahoo.com)
> > and the interesting thing is that Outlook will send email but will not
> > download email.
> >
> > I've turned off everything I can think off - Windows Firewall, Antivirus,
> > Windows Defender - I've changed the properties of my connection to all
> > thinkable configurations (thinkable by me anyways) and any other
> > Internet-like properties I can find but nothing seems to work. I can ping
> > yahoo.com servers and any other servers and I get a reply and I can run
> > tracert to all the servers as well. No problems there. But, I know they use
> > a different protocol. However, TCP/IP works with IE 7 so why wouldn't it
> > work with FireFox or anything else on my computer. The POP3 protocol doesn't
> > seem to be working or at least allowing anything in.
> >
> > What could possibly be preventing me from using anything but Internet
> > Explorer to surf the Internet?
>
>
> Your ISP. Does it require you to check for proxy settings?
>
> On XP I would use netcap + Ethereal to do a packet trace
> as proof that the ISP server is the cause of the problem.
> E.g. compare what the requests from the different browsers look like
> and the responses they get. If the only difference is User-Agent
> you may be able to spoof an IE User-Agent with Firefox.
>
> As for problems with ports other than 80 (HTTP server) you could try
> using telnet to simulate a connection.
>
>
> Cross-post to Vista Networking added.
> Link to existing subthreads:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/communities...a-51ad16a057af
>
>
> Good luck
>
> Robert Aldwinckle
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