VMware® Workstation 15 Player only connects to a few sites

I'm using VMware® Workstation 15 Player with XP. I have used the default network setup which is NAT. I'm using XP's Internet Explorer. It only connects to a few sites: e.g. it will connect to Microsoft.com and google.com but not  to VMware.com. I get "The page cannot be displayed". It did connect to VMware to download the tools though. As another example, I can search for "download chrome" and it gives me a list of links but when I click on a link I get the connection error.

This is a fresh load of Workstation 15.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks,

Eddy