I've been having some issues with my internet connection over the past couple of days. here are the symptoms:

• Internet Explorer doesn't load websites properly, it partially loads the sites and display some images with "x" in it
• Internet Explorer gives me the following errors when it can't load the URL
• "The address is not valid" and shows http:/// in the URL Bar
• "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" if I hit refresh a few times the page then loads properly.
• Sometimes when the pages don't load, it directs me to the "ask.com" search page with the site I'm trying to reach being searched.
• Websites struggles to load at times and I have to refresh a few times to have it load
• When I download files using "FlashGet" it stutters and pauses at times and it freezes at 97% completion, I then have to pause and restart the download to complete the download.

These symptoms started a couple days ago and I havent installed or tampered with anything so I'm stumped.

I did the following to try and resolve the issue:

• Checked to see if the "host" file was tampered with - Nope
• Ran HiJackThis and it didn't show anything out of the ordinary
• used CCleaner to remove all cache files from IE7
• Checked my router and it didnt seem to be an router issue as my 3 other computers are running fine free of any conection issues.
• Upgraded the router firmware - no result

Thank you everyone for taking a look and trying to help me resolve this issue.

Cheers!

Eddie