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    what the heck happened?

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by Sahin, Apr 6, 2008.

  1. Sahin

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    This morning I turned on my laptop, I wanted to check my e-mails nothing firefox would not connect me so i thought it was my connection no, i went to the basement turned on my desktop on both firefox, and internet explorer did not work went to my laptop, I turned on trouble shoot and it said some crap about DNS? So then I reseted my proxy settings and boom it worked again what the heck happened?
     
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    blue68f100 Notebook Virtuoso

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    I would have reset the router first. But since Vista was released before it was actually ready, it's part of the beta testing your doing......

    Did a MS update come through????? If so they have a tendency to change settings.
     
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    Yes an MS update came yesterday, but my desktop has XP both have Norton could it have been done by norton? And yes I was going to reset the router but I was getting a connection on both computers.
     
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    I do not run norton at all any more. It seams to cause more problems than good. And if the subscription expires, it pretty much just screws up your PC big time. With the best option only a clean install. Uninstalling does not remove all of it hooks. You are required to go to symantic web site and get the uninstaller. Besides you will have a huge gain in speed with a different FW/AV program. Norton consumes about 1/2 of your resources.

    I use Comodo FW (- Defense +, basic FW only) and the AV both are free. I have also used Avira AV but got tired of the popup trying to get you to update $$. Both have kept my pc clean.
     
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    So you think Norton is the suspect, and Norton has not expired on either, but yes I am having lots and lots of problems with Norton I will not recommend it.
     
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    your proxy server could be down. it happens to me once in a while..
     
    flipfire, Apr 6, 2008
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