I also had this problem at home on two of my Desktops
Windows 7 64-bit with SEP 11.0.6000 (unmanaged)
Windows 7 32-bit with SEP 11.0.6000 (unmanaged)
Both have all features installed.
Blocks Comcast's DNS servers.
Firewall rules to allow all traffic to/from the DNS addresses didn't make a difference.
I have NTP uninstalled for now, since I haven't had time to troubleshoot it yet.