>Found what the problem was, if you check your HOSTS file in WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC directory you will see that all the adware/popup URL's are set to local host, just delete all the entries and it all starts to work again.
>Not sure if SP2 or the ADWARE program did it, will do some further testing.
That hasn't been changed since more than a year. So, it is not the source of the problem.