Can't connect to Gmail.com/Gtalk

[Xeratul]

Whenever I try to connect to gmail.com I get the "The Page Cannot be displayed" error from IE or the "Unable to Connect" error from Firefox, but seeing as how I'm posting in this forum the internet appears to be working fine.

I looked through a web proxy, and I could see the site fine, but I couldn't log into my email probably because the proxy didn't support secure connections or something.

I'm wondering if a virus is blocking my access to the site or something.

OS: Windows XP
Firefox 2.0.0.2

[GX1_Man]

Whenever I try to connect to gmail.com I get the "The Page Cannot be displayed" error from IE or the "Unable to Connect" error from Firefox, but seeing as how I'm posting in this forum the internet appears to be working fine.

I looked through a web proxy, and I could see the site fine, but I couldn't log into my email.

I'm wondering if a virus is blocking my access to the site or something.

OS: Windows XP
Firefox 2.0.0.2

XP Home or Pro? Service Pack? Firewall? Virus and Spyware protection being used? Etc.?

[Xeratul]

Windows XP Home Edition
Service Pack 2
AVG Free Edition 7.1
AVG Anti-Spyware 7.5
Norton Internet Security

EDIT 1: When I try to connect to my other emails; (hotmail, yahoo) I get a little bit further to where I can type in my login credentials, but as soon as I type them in I get the same errors.

The URLs for email that my browser says it can't seem to connect to are

Hotmail - login.live.com
Yahoo - login.yahoo.com
Gmail - www.google.com (Even though I can go to google.com, just not gmail.com)

[Xeratul]

I've noticed that a few more of my internet applications aren't connecting either.

Xfire
World of Warcraft

I've tried toggling my firewalls off to see if they were blocking the programs, but that doesn't appear to be causing the problem. It seems like most of my programs that require web authentication to login and stuff aren't working.

[Xeratul]

I've fixed the problem on my own. I saw in the process list a file hijackthis identified as Norton Internet Security, but Norton wasn't even running in the system tray. I started up the Norton Internet Security program and nothing was working.

It wouldn't uninstall normally so I got that Norton_Removal_Tool.exe

I got another firewall Comodo, and everything is working fine.

[catherine12]

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[patio]

GMail is no longer by invite only...it is open to all.