I have had a problem connecting to websites such as google, yahoo, wikipedia, youtube, and a few others with error messages upon loading such as "failure to connect" or "connection interrupted". It has been over a month now, and I finally figured out what was giving me so much trouble. It seems to be a simple host file hijack, in my case all of my websites were redirecting me to a dead end. Here is what I did to solve the problem:
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