A friend was given a Inspiron 1525 laptop. The hard drive was bad, so I put him a new hard drive on. I did a new install of XP Pro, with SP-2 and 3. I had to load the Ethernet and wireless drivers. IE updated itself to IE 8. The problem I'm having is that IE won't load anything but MSN, Bing, and a few other sites. It won't even lied Microsoft. I get the diagnostic message about HTTP,, HTTPS, and FTP port settings on the firewall. No other programs have been installed.
Can someone please help?