Recent content by Kotomi W

There you go =D Yup, I'd recommend the free version, which is just the antivirus. Windows Firewall is actually not that bad. I'd also recommend Malwarebytes Anti-Malware (again, free version), just to make sure your PC is clean.

I'll stick around, don't worry ;) It's been determined that it is not the virus/malware (if it's there) that is causing the problem as before running the scans it was fine, albeit slow. DNSAPI.dll is why it doesn't want to connect to the internet, why you are getting a DNS failure. What I'm...

Ok. Let's get the firewall working: Open Notepad Copy and paste the following into Notepad: sc config MpsSvc start= auto sc config KeyIso start= auto sc config BFE start= auto sc config FwcAgent start= auto net stop MpsSvc net start MpsSvc net stop KeyIso net start KeyIso net start Wlansvc...

1) McAfee is terrible. Get rid of it (uninstall). It's probably blocking access to your internet due to some configuration error or something before. Follow this to uninstall it: http://service.mcafee.com/FAQDocument.aspx?id=TS101331 Don't reinstall it, and restart your laptop afterwards. An...