Minecraft launcher wont connect to internet

I was finally able to determine with the help of some of my forum friends that Minecraft's source code has been updated so as to not allow it from being played in an applet to prevent some inconspicuous bug whereby people who hadn't payed for the game were able to play it in an applet. This fortunately reinvigorated my efforts to determine what was wrong with playing the regular launcher. I was eventually told by the IRC chat for Minecraft that it was my ESET NOD32 antivirus which was causing the problem, and that I was forced to uninstall it in order to play Minecraft and install a different antivirus. I have elaborated on this in the comment I made below, but my problem is unfortunately not yet resolved. Here is where I posted the bug on the official Mojira bug posting site. https://mojang.atlassian.net/browse/MCL-887 However as the original problem has been solved I'll simply leave this as the answer.

Pretty strange problem, I've never seen it before. If I were you I would go over to your startup page (launcher) and click "Edit Profile" on your main profile and follow these steps:

1. Find the button that says "Launcher Visibility" and check the checkbox.

2. Select the dropdown menu to the right of the checkbox, once open select "Keep the launcher open".

3. Save profile.

4. Once saved you should return to the home screen, from there you should see a top menu with 3 tabs: Update Notes, Development Console and Profile Editor. Click Development Console.

5. Press play and do what you need to do to get it to not respond.

After you have completed all of those copy and paste the text in the development console and send it over to Minecraft Support (https://help.mojang.com/) and post a thread with the text from the development console. They should be able to get into depth on how to fix it! Good luck!