Windows Update page connection refused.

Clicking on the Windows Update icon brings up IE, but I get:

Unable to request URL from host windowsupdate.microsoft.com:80: Connection
refused.

I went back thru a lot of the posts here and killed off all the temp files,
cookies, and history. Added *.windowsupdate.com to the trusted sites, did
the "services.msc" for both regsvr32 qmgr* updates, turned BITS, and Event
Log back on to Auto(it was set to Man). Didnt do steps 4 or 5 tho, didnt
think that would make it refuse connection...

I ran AdAware and SpyBot Search/Destroy yesterday. SD found a
"WindowsFirewallDisable" entry, but I'm running ZoneLabs Free Firewall(latest
update).

WinXP, SP2 with all patches as of last Friday.. McAfee AV (v10.0.27, engine
5100, DAT: 10/19/06). Thursday McAfee found a CD music file was infected by
a virus, 'dont remember the type, but it wasnt able to clean it or
quarentine, so it was killed off. Makes me suspicious that virus file was
found and now i cant get connect to MS Update site, either tho Update icon,
or even typing in Update URL.

WOW, now trying to get to MS front page (microsoft.com), I get:

Network Error
Unable to request URL from host www.microsoft.com:80: tried all of the
host's addresses:
www.microsoft.com/207.46.18.30: Connection refused
www.microsoft.com/207.46.19.30: Connection refused
www.microsoft.com/207.46.19.60: Connection refused
www.microsoft.com/207.46.20.30: Connection refused
www.microsoft.com/207.46.20.60: Connection refused
www.microsoft.com/207.46.198.30: Connection refused
www.microsoft.com/207.46.199.30: Connection refused
www.microsoft.com/207.46.199.60: Connection refused

It's going from bad to worse.. I can still get to MS page thru Avant (IE
clone) and Netscape..

Help please!!

Thanks, TJ

additional... ok, hitting the GO button several times finally gets me the
microsoft.com front page, but clicking on the Update link gives me the
Connection Refused page

Fixed it.. killed off all the proxy info, turned AU off, then on... works
now..

"skygodtj" wrote:

> additional... ok, hitting the GO button several times finally gets me the
> microsoft.com front page, but clicking on the Update link gives me the
> Connection Refused page
>
>