Question : Cannot Ping

Everything works fine on my laptop (WinXP, SP2 Installed). When I try to ping any site, any ip, I just cant, I get timeout.....

I can ping from another machine to the laptop, that works.


I took the laptop to the office, still same problem. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Answer : Cannot Ping

Then it could have to do with a firewall that doesn't allow outgoing icmp traffic (although I find that difficult to believe). Or, maybe there is some malware on that PC?

Turn off System Restore (Control Panel, System).
 
start msconfig (Start, Run, msconfig), select the startup tab and remove the ticks from any programs you aren't sure of what they might be.
 
Let your PC be restarted
 
Download and install Spybot S & D (http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html)
Let the installer activate the teatimer and update Spybot.
Click on "make registry backup", wait until done and click on next.
Let the scan finish, then select all the found items and select clean.
If the system wasn't able to clean out everything it found, let it reboot. Spybot should startup before you logon, do another scan.
Again select all found items and clean. When finished select "immunize", then close spybot.
 
Download and install Adaware (http://lavasoft.com).
Let the installer do an update, then scan the system.
Select all found items and let them be removed.
A reboot may also be necessary here.
 
If either Spybot or adaware or both still weren't able to remove all malware, reboot your system to safemode and let the tool which couldn't remove a malware do another scan. If it is adaware, change the scan settings to scan within archives, then start a scan.
Again select all found malware and let them be removed.
 
 
 
if you still have malware on your system after that, download the latest version of HijackThis:
 
http://www.hijackthis.de/downloads
run it and save the log. Paste the log to the following website:
 
http://www.hijackthis.de/en
 
Click the "analyze" button and you will have an analysis of your log.
Now paste the analyzed log here, so we can help further (provided you don't get enough info from the log and can do it yourself).
 
next make sure your AV Software is uptodate and running. Let the system do a thorough AV scan.