Vista - Internet Connection being blocked by remote firewall.

Everytime I open IE an error messeage gets displayed. I clicked the "Diagnose Connection Problems" button and the a box appeared saying "Windows confirmed that www.yahoo.com is currenly online, but is not responding to connection attemps at this time. This usually means that a irewall is runng somewhere between the wo computers and is blocking World Wide web servie (HTTP). Windows has confirmed that indows Firewall on this computer is correctly configured to allow this conection. However, a remote firewall mightbe blocking your connection." If you have access to this firewall then configure the firewall to allow connection through TCP port80. If you don't have acess contact your network aministrator or internet service provider. What should I do?

I don't know what to do now.

what it means is do you have your own firewall installed? other than windows own , by remote it means third party such as Norton , Kaspersky something like that.

could you goto start orb/programs/acessories/command prompt (but right click command prompt and choose run as administrator)

in the resulting box type ping www.g oogle.com then hit return (with a space between ping and the address)

it will send 4 packets of info and if your not blocked from the internet should look something like this

let us know what happens , the issue may just be with IE

it just said

c:\Windows\system>ping www.google.com

Pinging www.1.google.com [64.233.169.147] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 64.233.169.147: bytes =32 time =305ms TTL =243
Reply from 64.233.169.147: bytes =32 time =41ms TTL =243
Reply from 64.233.169.147: bytes =32 time =160ms TTL =243
Reply from 64.233.169.147: bytes =32 time =39ms TTL =243

Ping statistics for 64.233.169.147:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 <0% loss>,
Approximate round trip times in milli-second:
Minimum = 39s, Maximum = 305ms, Average = 136ms

C:\Windows\system32>

So you can communicate with the site.

Try going into Internet Options in IE (Tools > Internet Options)
Click the connections tab
Click the LAN Settings button near the bottom
If ticked clear the tick box for "Automatically detect settings"

Under the section named "Proxy Server" is there a tick in the tickbox for Use proxy server for your LAN, if so does the Address box and Port box filled in?

No the box is not checked in.