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Originally Posted by NTLsufferer
I may have some light at the end of the tunnel ! 
I have just diconnected the NTL Broadband modem, turned off all Norton software, reinstalled SP2, re-booted, turned off XP Firewall and Anti-Virus, tunred on Norton Firewall and Anti-virus..... and got exactly the same problem, i.e. nothing but error messages from Explorer. BUT when I checked the Firewall settings I saw that Explorer was set to "Permit All" so for the heck of it I set it to "Automatic" and hey presto - I can get on the internet via Explorer. I'm almost too paranoid to re-boot now ! Maybe this is the fix ? |
It worked for you so well done, looks like the firewall needed to re-learn the permissions for Internet Explorer. Like I said above, SP2 alters some files related to IE so firewalls will often have to ask you if you want it to access the internet just in case something nasty has interfered with it.
At least it's working again