Hey Hey,

I'll throw out some ideas, don't know how good they'll be but they may result in something.

When you say the firewall is off, do you mean a third-party firewall or ICF and whichever you meant, have you checked the other. I'd set-up the ICS NIC as a trusted zone and make sure ICF wasn't in use.

Have you considered a hijacked hosts file? I remember getting hit once by something that Spybot wouldn't find. It left my original hosts file alone, but created a new one in %systemroot%\Help\iisHelp. It had changed/added a registry entry telling the system to look their for my hosts file instead.

You can ping by IP... can you ping by hostname? Can you resolve by IP/Hostname..... in other words does your machine know the DNS Servers IPs. Can you statically set them and see if that works?

Just a few ideas to throw out and get you thinking, I've seen those all cause problems before.. Good luck with it and if you get any more info... post it and I'll be sure to follow the thread.

Peace,
HT