Cannot connect to wireless network (local only access) ...
I am having trouble connecting to my wireless internet and am growing increasingly frustrated by my inability to repair it. I have exhausted all of the resources I have found online in other forums/topics and am hoping that someone can help me solve this issue. My Equipment: Acer Aspire AS4752Z-4694 Laptop / Motorola 2210 High Speed DSL Modem / Cisco-Linksys Wireless-N Broadband Router Yesterday afternoon I was having no trouble brousing the internet on my laptop through my wireless network. While researching some photographs, my computer "spazzed out" and caused Firefox to crash. Basically, a little icon showed up in my taskbar system tray that looked like the Microsoft security shield. Small notification bubbles started popping up telling me that my programs were infected with a worm and then some kind of dashboard for this program (called simply: "Internet Security") popped up and started "scanning" my computer, finding a whole list of supposed infections. At that point, I was able to stop the scan, but the notification bubbles continued to pop-up and none of my executibles would work. From another laptop that I have, I was able to search the internet and find out that this program was some kind of fake anti-virus software. It gave instructions for removing it, which I followed. The first step was to restart your computer in safe mode with networking, which I did. However, upon the system booting back up in safe mode with networking, I was unable to access the internet. The system said that it was connected and the router/modem showed that it was connected, but it was set to "local only" on the access and would not fully connect to the internet. I went ahead with the removal of the fake anti-virus by running Malwarebyes (per the website's instruction) and then rebooted in normal mode. But, big shocker, although the anti-virus was gone the computer still wouldn't connect to the internet. I knew that the internet was working because my other laptop was still able to connect to the internet via this network, so I did some searching online and found that others have been having this problem. I have tried about a dozen things, and nothing has worked. I'm no computer whiz, but this is just getting excessive and way over my head. I've seen a lot of comments that it is linked to Norton, but I do not have Norton installed on my computer at all. Since I'm able to connect to the network from another laptop, it seems like the problem is confined to my regular laptop. I'm out of ideas. Any suggestions? I've tried unplugging everything and rebooting, no luck. I tried turning off the auto-tune, no luck. I tried adding a registry fix for DHCP toggle. I tried something else where I had to go into the system and change a "0" to a "1" (like I said, not a computer person so I cannot remember what that was or where I found it), but nothing is working. I'm getting frustrated because without that wireless connection, I essentially just have a $500 paperweight. Cany anyone help?
March 3rd, 2012 3:49pm

hello, well you removed the virus,after the reboot the first thing you should do is reset IE8 or IE9 depends what you are using,go to (open IE) tools/ internet options/advance/reset/deleted personal settings (check box)/delete. if this works update malwarebytes and run full scan, the virus always moved the settings for the internet,you remove the virus but the settings still the same,thats why is better to do a reset firts and then mess with the registry, hope it can help..any help is well appreciated, it all depends on who needs it. mark as answer if it help.
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March 3rd, 2012 6:18pm

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