- May 6, 2011
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I've been fighting an unusual problem with two of my laptops for a couple days. The main symptom is that major search engines (Google & DuckDuckGo) come up with blank pages. Obscure engines such as Dogpile seem OK.
At first I thought it was the brand new Windows 10 14942, as the problems started when I updated all my machines to that release. But after numerous reloads of a several-days-old backup from my Windows Home Server, I'm convinced that the problem only occurs when I connect wirelessly to my home network. My wired desktop has not been affected, and as long as I connect the laptops via wire - I now have a 100 foot Cat5 cable snaking through the house - things seem OK. And no problems with wireless externally, such as at a coffee shop.
AdwCleaner, Panda Cloud Cleaner, and Malware Bytes don't find anything.
I had a weird problem several years ago with the wireless router, which turned out to be some rogue DNS addresses somehow getting installed into that router's configuration. Clearing them remedied the problem, and that is not the issue this time. Everything I can see in the Cisco E3000 configuration screens seems shipshape.
I haven't yet done anything to the router other than a couple reboots.
Has anyone ever encountered similar failures before? Any advice from knowledgeable network gurus?
Art
At first I thought it was the brand new Windows 10 14942, as the problems started when I updated all my machines to that release. But after numerous reloads of a several-days-old backup from my Windows Home Server, I'm convinced that the problem only occurs when I connect wirelessly to my home network. My wired desktop has not been affected, and as long as I connect the laptops via wire - I now have a 100 foot Cat5 cable snaking through the house - things seem OK. And no problems with wireless externally, such as at a coffee shop.
AdwCleaner, Panda Cloud Cleaner, and Malware Bytes don't find anything.
I had a weird problem several years ago with the wireless router, which turned out to be some rogue DNS addresses somehow getting installed into that router's configuration. Clearing them remedied the problem, and that is not the issue this time. Everything I can see in the Cisco E3000 configuration screens seems shipshape.
I haven't yet done anything to the router other than a couple reboots.
Has anyone ever encountered similar failures before? Any advice from knowledgeable network gurus?
Art