"Monty" <Monty@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:BBB61433-D2DB-43CB-8050-808D5943BFE3@microsoft.com...
> I am having a lot of intermittent problems surfing the web. IE is hanging
> up!!. When I double click on the IE Icon it may, or may not connect & bring
> up our Home Page. If it does connect, I may be able to surf for a while, and
> then try to go to another website (or home page) and nothing happens. On the
> IE bar on the bottom it just says Web Site found..........waiting for
> reply.......... From this point it never connects again until I re-start my
> machine. Even with re-starting it sometimes doesn't connect.
> There is no pattern to it. I have the latest Windows updates (perhaps the
> problem??), the latest version of IE, Norton Internet Security 2006, etc.
> (which, by the way, shows I have no viruses, spyware, etc)
> I have tried everything I know and it's still doing the same thing. I
> thought it may be one of the Browser Add Ons, but have been
> disabling/enabling them for the past week now & nothing seems to make a
> difference. I am currently in the process of uninstalling the Windows Updates
> one at a time to see if one of them is the problem.
> This has been going on since approximately December 20th (We still had
> Norton Antivirus 2003- Didn't install Norton IS until late December). Up
> until then it was fine.
> Can anyone help? Same problem?
> PS - NOT my Cable/Internet connection (first thing I checked) - My email
> works great!

I'm really not the one to answer your question, but you should
say which version of Windows you are using, and if you have
a firewall.