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Hello,

I recently deleted my .minecraft because I had a lot of unwanted files in it. I then started Minecraft to get all the vanilla files in my Roaming folder. I got this error:

Bootstrap (v5)
Current time is Jan 19, 2014 1:44:11 AM
System.getProperty('os.name') == 'Windows 7'
System.getProperty('os.version') == '6.1'
System.getProperty('os.arch') == 'amd64'
System.getProperty('java.version') == '1.6.0_29'
System.getProperty('java.vendor') == 'Sun Microsystems Inc.'
System.getProperty('sun.arch.data.model') == '64'
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma
Exception: java.net.SocketException: Unrecognized Windows Sockets error: 87: create
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 2/10)
Exception: java.net.SocketException: Unrecognized Windows Sockets error: 87: create
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 3/10)
Exception: java.net.SocketException: Unrecognized Windows Sockets error: 87: create
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 4/10)
Exception: java.net.SocketException: Unrecognized Windows Sockets error: 87: create
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 5/10)
Exception: java.net.SocketException: Unrecognized Windows Sockets error: 87: create
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 6/10)
Exception: java.net.SocketException: Unrecognized Windows Sockets error: 87: create
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 7/10)
Exception: java.net.SocketException: Unrecognized Windows Sockets error: 87: create
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 8/10)
Exception: java.net.SocketException: Unrecognized Windows Sockets error: 87: create
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 9/10)
Exception: java.net.SocketException: Unrecognized Windows Sockets error: 87: create
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/launcher.pack.lzma (try 10/10)
Exception: java.net.SocketException: Unrecognized Windows Sockets error: 87: create
Unable to download remote file. Check your internet connection/proxy settings.
FATAL ERROR: net.minecraft.bootstrap.FatalBootstrapError: Unable to download while being forced
at net.minecraft.bootstrap.Bootstrap.execute(Bootstrap.java:95)
at net.minecraft.bootstrap.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:381)

Please fix the error and restart.

Also, after that, I tried restoring my .minecraft from my recycle bin and when I logged in, it gave me this message.
http://i.imgur.com/vS3EjQY.png
My friends say they can connect to the Minecraft servers, so it's not a problem with Mojang. Also, I can get on skype and a couple other games, so it's not my connection. And when I look in the firewall settings I don't see minecraft on the list.

Any help?

I'm having the same problem as TheFuzz and I'm not sure how to fix it. I don't think that it's antivirus software or anything, but it has to do with the Windows Socket error 87. If so, does anyone know how to fix Error 87? Or any suggestions on what to do? I'm on Windows 7.