The connection has timed out with certain sites on all browsers

When I type in google.ca or bing.com in my address bar, it says " The connection has timed out. The server at bing.com is taking too long to respond." i have done may virus scans and that has not worked. This happens in all brosers and i am using windows XP. I am mainly using FireFox 3.6. My friends can access the sites and seem like i am the only one with the problem.
== URL of affected sites ==
http://bing.com
== User Agent ==
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefo8769 79680741803 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Only on some sites.
Really weird thing is, Internet Explorer works FINE!!!

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