Hello all
I am running an AMD64 machine with XPSP3 32 bit and Norton AV and NIS 2009 (upgraded from 2007 --> 2008 --> 2009).
All has been working fine until this morning. Some sites are no longer accessable by this machine. On the same router and same DNS, i can access with another machine with no issue.
I am not very familiar with the internals of NIS, and this may be another issue but it seems that certain IP's are being blocked by something on my machine, Norton or other.
Symptoms:
1) I cannot reach my email server via a client (thunderbird) or via a web browser.
2) I cannot reach any site with the same domain name, example, if my mail server is mymailserver.test.com
then i cannot reach http://whois.domaintools.com/test.com
3) I cannot reach any website hosted on the same server, ie. same IP or IP registered to same domain.
4) Pinging these sites does not work either.
Here's the clincher, at least the mail server and one other website (different domain/IP) have had invalid SSL certificates over the past few days. The mail has fixed this recently (2 days ago) but i ony have this issue from this morning.
WHat i have tried thus far:
1) Reboot
2) Followed steps as in
http://www.symantec.com/norton/support/kb/web_view.jsp?wv_type=public_web&docurl=20080613124319EN
2.1) Could not download the tool due to connection issues
2.2) Could not run liveupdate due to connection issues
3) Turned off Phishing, no help
4) Disabled Norton, no help
5) Cleared all private data, temp files, cache etc. from Firefox and IE7
6) Rapidly made high velocity contact between my desk and my forehead several times
7) Rebooted and tried again
Still nothing.
Again, from another machine (Mac) on the same LAN, i can reach everything, no problem, so i'm fairly certain it's a problem local to the machine.
Being not terribly PC savvy, i pose the following questions to the kind folks here:
1) Does it sound like a NIS issue?
2) PC/Windows issue?
3) Virus??
4) Other
Many thanks to you in advance.
LP