Hi, Recently my Microsoft softwares stopped connecting to internet. Software such as Windows Live Messenger, Internet Explorer, Windows Security Essentials to name a few. I ran multiple anti virus software such as Sophos, Malwarebytes, and AVG. Though all of them picked some malware, but those were cured but my problems still persisted. Under services.msc windows update is also turned of and gives an error 0x80070057 when turned on. Windows live messenger give an error code 8004840a and Windows Security Essentials gives an error of 0x80080005. Internet Explorer wont open an page such as bing.com. However Google Chrome, Firefox, and Yahoo messenger do connect to internet without any hassle. I did perform ipconfig /release and ipconfig /renew but that also did not fix my problem. Can anyone help me with this, Thanks!