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Suddenly my ability to browse disappeared yesterday. I can still ping by ip/name, I can connect to RDP computers remotely. I also have a virtual machine on my laptop that is able to browse the web.
Firewall is off. It feels like my port 80 blocked. I did sfc check but it didn't help me at all.
This happened when I was my VPN client FrontiClient.
Timka
Posted 2012-09-15T13:56:12.630
Reputation: 208
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After spending most of my night/morning trying to figure out the issue by applying different 'fixes' I found the problem:
Somehow my IE's proxy settings were on with the details below: 'http' proxy was set to 127.0.0.1 port 8888 'Secure' was set to 127.0.0.1 port 8888
And 'do not use proxy' list was set to: <-loopback>
After disabling proxy my issue was resolved. The program responsible for this 'switch' was Fiddler. For some reason it crashed (without me noticing it) and left the settings on.
Timka
Posted 2012-09-15T13:56:12.630
Reputation: 208
Found the answer to this issue but have to wait for 10 more hrs to post it here as unswer:) The issue was with the settings for the proxy in IE. Somehow they got changed yesterday. – Timka – 2012-09-15T14:05:08.580
2And finally found the 'cause' of this:) (ah, took me 8hrs to figure it out) - I was using fiddler and didn't noticed that it crashed, therefore proxy settings in IE didn't revert back to default='no proxy' – Timka – 2012-09-15T14:11:57.703
please do post it as an answer – Sathyajith Bhat – 2012-09-16T13:06:24.543