I have a strange issue where my new laptop doesn't open certain websites that I commonly use on other computers. An example of this is http://www.mlb.com. When I attempt to navigate to this site I get the standard "The page cannot be displayed" error (the same error you would get if you had no internet connection.) The above happens when I use IE 6.0. I then downloaded Firefox 3.0.9 and this websites partially opens and then freezes before all the content displays. Next when I go into safe mode with networking this website opens up and displays perfectly in both browsers. This tells me that something is running on my machine (when not in safe mode) that is causing the browsers not to handle some kind of content on mlb.com and similar websites correctly, but for the life of me I can't figure out what it is that is responsible. I tried disabling my firewall, anti-spyware, pop-up blocker and all IE add-ons and still get the same result when not in safe mode. It appears that mlb.com and some of the other sites that I can't open run java. Does anyone have any advice where I should be looking? Thanks in advance.

Someone came here with a problem like that a few months back and it ended up being the nVidia firewall that was installed on his computer. WinSimple Software CompTIA A+ Certified

I don't see that I have the nVidia firewall installed anywhere. I am currently using the free Online Armor firewall, but when I turn it off in normal windows mode I still see the issue. Ironically www.nvidia.com is one of the sites I can't open due to this problem.

Well the guy that had this problem had to completely remove the firewall from his system. Disabling it wasn't good enough. Do you use any Norton products? WinSimple Software CompTIA A+ Certified

I'll try to uninstall my firewall and see what happens. Although I am running this same firewall version on another machine and don't see this issue there. Thanks

Forgot to mention, I am not running any Norton products. I uninstalled the firewall, restarted windows and still see the issue.

I think I have resolved the issue but I'm not 100% sure what the fix was. Here's what I did. 1.) Uninstalled Online Armor firewall 2.) reboot windows at this point the issue was NOT fixed. 3.) Uninstalled PC Tools Threatfire Spyware Monitor test and again issue was NOT fixed 4.) Resinstalled Online Armor firewall 5.) Reboot Issue is now resolved. I'm assuming it was Threatfire that was causing the issue and the pc just needed to be rebooted after the uninstall.