I went to Help and Support Center from the start menu to Network Diagnostics. It showed DNS Server Search Order (FAILED).
Pinging 202.88.130.5 with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Ping statistics for 202.88.130.5:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss)
I have a cable internet connection connected via external modem. I would be highly obliged if you'd help me out on this.
PS. I have run a full system scan through Spyware Doctor, Yahoo Anti-spy, AVG 7.5 & Ad-Aware SE personal...all clean.