Programs having trouble contacting internet

[JustAGamer]

A few days ago, iTunes had trouble contacting the apple store. For a while, I simply suspected the site was down. Then I noticed the rs client wasn't able to contact the internet either. Nor was a news page on another program. I figured that this was probably just some sort of firewall/anti-spyware issue, but I've gone through the windows firewall and all of my antivirus programs with no luck.

 

 

 

Now i'm starting to worry that some sort of virus is blocking the internet for select programs. A few still work (i.e. firefox, online games in the games folder, etc.) but I fear for the safety of my computer. Spyhunter 3 (I had to buy a month subscription when fighting malware issues about a week back :-# ) and AVG Free have found nothing out of the ordinary. Does anyone possibly know what's blocking these select programs?

 

 

 

Thanks in advance.

[acenator]

I'm not sure what else could be blocking the programs, but I highly suggest switching to Avira Antivir for virus protection and Ad-Aware for spyware protection.* AVG has become one of the worst anti-virus programs lately and all I hear of in the spyware department is that Ad-Aware is best.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Be careful when running Ad-Aware with Avira installed as I've had Ad-Aware take Avira as malware before (only happened once and then I got rid of Ad-Aware because I have IE set to block add-ons from sites I have gotten spyware from previously, anyways (after running a scan, I'd go into IE, go Tools > Internet Options > Privacy Otions > Sites, and then just put in the sites listed at the bottom of the report and hit block; I currently have like 60 sites blocked this way and haven't had spyware problems in a long time (I know this because that incident with Ad-Aware happened a couple weeks ago, it only detected Avira as a threat, and I hadn't had an anti-spyware program on my computer for at least a year beforehand))).