Windows PC Internet Messed Up

I'm just killing all these tech problems around the home. My Windows desktop's internet stopped working recently, and I could only access a few sites, Google.com being one of them. I thought the problem was with the Linksys WRT54GL with Tomato v1.28 firmware that I recently set up, but that wasn't it. I plugged it into the modem directly, but that wasn't it. I installed a bunch of Windows updates very recently, but that didn't seem to really matter either. I googled "can only access google" since it was one of the few things I could actually see, but there were very few concrete answers.

Luckily, the wireless was working, which isolated the problem and helped me to research the problem. A few virus scans later (there was a few Java exploits and a Trojan from a Format Factory installer), I still couldn't access the full internet. Luckily, I happened upon this thread. It advised me to check out an article on TCP/IP Winsock Catalog Corruption. I followed the simple steps:

1. Grab an Administrator-level command prompt.
2. Run 'netsh winsock reset'.
3. Restart your computer.

And that did it. Anyway, if you run into something similar, that should work for you. The reason I'm posting this is because so many threads from years ago addressed the topic, but none of them had any real answer. This one worked for me, so maybe it'll work for you too. Cheerio.