I can connect to internet with IE and Chrome but apps cant

I just got a new gaming rig. Windows 7 64 home edition. Service Pack 1

My problem.

I can access the internet through Chrome.
Programs like yahoo messenger, starcraft, minecraft, dragon age 2 and others can access the internet servers for log in or downloads.

Programs like I.E. firefox, Steam, Electronic arts Download manager, Crysis 2, he Avast program and virus definitions update and the norton update cannot find their respective servers along with several other programs

the system came with norton internet security. I have uninstalled. I have installed Avast internet security.

I have checked that my internet settings have auto configure proxy.
I have turned off my windows firewall
I have turned off my avast firewall

Same problem (server not found) in the applications above.

I have manually added these applications as approved apps in both windows firewall and avast. I opened all ports, TCP/UDP

I tried resetting all networking to default settings.

This is driving me crazy....

Any suggestions?

 

I also just tried running the troubleshooting app for networking and incoming connections. I Tried to diagnose the firefox problem and I get an error. I ran as administrator and got an error code 0x800706BE

 

Most probably a malware infection.

Head over to Malware & Virus Removal section of the forum.

 

Results of malware scans

I have run all of the malware scans. and I am posting the results. I could not update the malwarebyte app due to my very problem of my PC not letting certain apps access their servers over the internet. I did however just run a Microsoft Malicious Software removal scan and found nothing.

Here are the results of the other suggested scans.

Please help... Thanks.