New Laptop Nightmare!

[koalasrule]

I purchased a new Samsung R510 with an Intel Core i5 processor running at 2.67GHz. Installed MS Office 2010 and Windows 7, and everything was working fine, then installed Trend Micro anti-virus and all my troubles began. Long story short I have managed to sort most of the dramas, which fixed themselves to a degree with Trend Micro was uninstalled (I now run Avast anti-virus) but I am still having an issue or two with Internet Explorer (I run version 9 - which I hate!). When I purchased the laptop it had Norton on it (which you had to subscribe to - I didn't) and have uninstalled that. I now run Firefox which accesses the websites that IE9 seems to want to block, but there's obviously a gremlin in the machine somewhere that is still blocking some websites. I have tried everything to sort the problem, but nothing has worked. Anyone got any clues?

 

[linkin]

Check control panel > Programs for any Norton crap left over on your computer.

Disable any Norton add-ons in IE.

That should do the trick. If not, in IE, go to tools > internet options > connections > LAN settings and then make sure that there is no proxy server running.

 

[koalasrule]

Yep, did all that, and still had hassles. I've just uninstalled IE9 and gone back to IE8, and that does seem to have helped to a large degree.

 

[flanker]

Yep, did all that, and still had hassles. I've just uninstalled IE9 and gone back to IE8, and that does seem to have helped to a large degree.

Trend Micro and the rest of them junk money sucking programs,will do a number on any computer. Think I would do a re-formating and start over clean.