Last update locked port 80

I restarted after an update was downloaded and all the browsers have stopped
working, IE, Opera all of them, but P2P and anything not connected to port 80
is working. I am using a live linux cd to get on line. every MS update
after feb 2007 has cause nothing but problems. Firewall is not the cause can
see nothing that would cause this. What to do say reinstall and I am going
to a thousand forums and warning people to dump MS now I am on a linux as it
is.? last time we went thoug this had to reinstall and fix everything three
times more then 40 hours wasted, repair disk only made things worse and
ended up total rebuild. What have you done this time and how do I fix it.
Why did you do this to me I have better things to do? How I going to get a
fix without port 80 working. I bet if others had Linux they could get on
line and tell ya they have the same problem.

"sawon66" wrote:

> I restarted after an update was downloaded and all the browsers have stopped
> working, IE, Opera all of them, but P2P and anything not connected to port 80
> is working. I am using a live linux cd to get on line. every MS update
> after feb 2007 has cause nothing but problems. Firewall is not the cause can
> see nothing that would cause this. What to do say reinstall and I am going
> to a thousand forums and warning people to dump MS now I am on a linux as it
> is.? last time we went thoug this had to reinstall and fix everything three
> times more then 40 hours wasted, repair disk only made things worse and
> ended up total rebuild. What have you done this time and how do I fix it.
> Why did you do this to me I have better things to do? How I going to get a
> fix without port 80 working. I bet if others had Linux they could get on
> line and tell ya they have the same problem.


I am now back online in XP.

Upon restarting the PC in XP , XP contected the internet much more then it
norm. does and the yellow shield for updates flashed on the task bar and then
went away. The hard drive took off for a few minutes running like mad and
reloaded the updates I had backed out by using the restore. Which had not
fixed the port 80 problem. It then said 9 updates ready to install do you
want to install now. I wanted to wait a back up my P2P part. files, but then
the PC shutdown itself. I had to restart it. when I restarted it it
installed the updated without permission. Now the updates that had caused
the problem are loaded again but this time everything works OK. Its like a
patch came in other then port 80 and fixed the updates and started the
install over again by itself. I am just glad I didn't have to re install XP
yet again.