Certain web sites will not load in IE

Hello:
My Internet Explorer will not load certain web sites. I also use Netscape Navigator 6.2 and every site loads fine on that browser. For instance, Yahoo.com will not load, I get the "page can not be displayed message ", but other sites load fine. I am not using a firewall, and I do have a router connected, but I have bypassed it, connected my pc directly into my cable modem and it still does not work. I can ping yahoo, but the browser will not load it, or other sites (including this one). I had to access this site thru netscape.
Any suggestions?
Thanks, Tom

 

meissy56--Here is what MS suggests
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;241344
If you have a firewall, you could also try disabling.

 

Look here, under "Can't display page ", for more ideas:

http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/answers.htm#dns

 

Thanks Welshjim and Alice, from your suggestions I got it figured out.
Tom

 

So what was the solution? It might help someone else in the same boat

 

Alice:
I did not do anything too technical here.......
while I was at the MS web site, I noticed an upgrade and new service patch for IE 6.0, which I am using. Although I do upgrades every so often, this was a June 03 release. I thought as long as I was here I would download the new stuff for my IE.
As soon as I downloaded and rebooted, everything worked fine again! The new data may have changed my dns or proxy settings or something, but anyway it works.
Thanks, Tom

 

Thanks for letting us know that upgrading IE6 was the solution. Good thinking on your part