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All three browsers affected. Firefox, Internet explorer and Chrome......JEEZ!!!
Published on February 16, 2012 By Uvah In Personal Computing

     Yesterday it was an issue with Windows update. I thought it was solved. It started out with two of my browsers not loading correctly. Today however its something more serious. IE, Chrome and FF are all being redirected to the Comcast billing site. No matter what link I click on or site in my speed dial they all go to Comcast. I believe it started when I opened yahoo. There was an ad on the page for comcast that didn't fully load. When I clicked on mail it started. I ran all of my utilities thinking I caught a bug but neither of them found anything. I opened MalwareBytes to run that one and as usual it needed to update its virus definitions, no problem as I've done that many times before. This time though an error message came up saying that there are files missing or corrupt. So In uninstalled MalwareBytes hoping to go for a fresh install. No go.

     I used the system restore and took my laptop back to the 13th. thinking whatever is on it would be gone. Nope! Its still there and when I tried to open Windows update another error message saying it cannot access any updates. Windows update is not working, browsers are being redirected, uninstalling FF and rolling back to a previous version didn't work. Right now I can't use my laptop at all on the net. Is anyone else having this issue with browsers being redirected or is it a bug on my system. The only thing I can think of to do is use my rescue disk and pray it works. 


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on Feb 17, 2012

Sorry, you posted at the same time I did. There is no light for the wi-fi. F8 turns it on or off but there is no indicator.

I did get the video driver for it. Extracted the archive and clicked on the setup.exe. Its encrypted.

on Feb 17, 2012

look in Device Manager/ Network Adapter: Intel or Atheros?

Ok... which is it?

on Feb 17, 2012

I did get the video driver for it. Extracted the archive and clicked on the setup.exe. Its encrypted.

Ok...this is how it works. I ask question, you answer question.

Short of that, stop 'doing things'!

on Feb 17, 2012

Okay

on Feb 17, 2012

Run Advanced System Care the free version should fix your problems.

on Feb 17, 2012

Start with #47.

on Feb 17, 2012

Intel

on Feb 17, 2012

That's where I got the drivers from. The wi-fi is the one not a win32 app and the video is encrypted.

on Feb 17, 2012

These are self-installing zip files.

Double click the zip file.

on Feb 17, 2012

Okay ... the video driver is installed but in device manager it says its still calling the screen a standard VGA and the resoluton still goes no higher than 1024x768. I did reboot. Waiting on the network driver ... again. Maybe the first time I downloaded it was bad.

on Feb 17, 2012

Ommmmmmmm. Listen to the Duck. Ommmmmmmmmm.

on Feb 17, 2012

on Feb 17, 2012

I are listenin' to the duck. I'm halfway home. Screen resolution is normal now. Now its the etwork adapters turn to be a pain. Double click and the extraction runs but the setup itself doesn't. I'm still waiting for it.

on Feb 17, 2012

I are listenin' to the duck. I'm halfway home. Screen resolution is normal now....

The duck have say :




Quoting Uvah,
reply 46
I did get the video driver for it. Extracted the archive and clicked on the setup.exe. Its encrypted.


Ok...this is how it works. I ask question, you answer question.

Short of that, stop 'doing things'!

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