Run HijackThis and post a log. Sounds like a DNS lookup failure, which I've seen caused by various forms of malware.
- Alex -- Smart is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wise is knowing better than to put one in a fruit salad. On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Jeffrey Race <[email protected]> wrote: > Has anyone seen this symptom and any ideas for a fix? > Whenever I click enter after keying a URL into a browser > (IE or Chrome)nothing happens for at least 30 seconds, > sometimes longer. It's as though something were timing > out locally before anything starts happening. The CPU is > doing nothing during this kind of misbehavior. When I > use computers elsewhere, if I am connected to a fast > pipe the page starts painting immediately. > > Jeffrey Race > > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
