Lately I've run into a head-scratcher of an issue with my PC. I cant send outgoing files to the internet.
I've tried email attachments on Yahoo
I've tried putting up a .rar of my files on rapidshare
I've even tried updating my Beklin router's firmware
Any action involving sending of files via a browser immediately just cuts out and dies, and from then on, I am unable to access any internet or local network (192.168.2.1 in this case) until I restart. This is supported by the fact that my Outpost Firewall Pro is showing a sudden stoppage of all network bytes in/out as soon as I click the "send" or "update" or "attach" button on the browser.
This is confusing as I was able to attach similar files fine not 3 days ago on the same yahoo email account I use.
I've already ruled out router and/or beyond-router issues as I've sent test files fine (scattering of Word .doc's, random jpg's taken off the internet and flipped upside down for sending, and some garbled text files with some legible words at the end) sans the belkin router update, since the laptop I was using (Vista) is one I dont trust to be completely 100% clean enough for the job. Paranoid old me.
Steps I've taken with no success:
*paused, and then stopped internet mail, network and web shields of Avast 4 (failure)
*tried IE7 instead of my addon-using Firefox (fail, same issue)
*tried another PC on the network (laptop, success)
*tried different methods of sending files via browser (rapidshare, fail)
*tried updating Belkin wireless router firmware (fail, could not even get the updated firmware to the router)
*tried pinging when issue is active (success, anything I ping responds back within known latency times)
