Peppurr101
Power User
Hello all,
I am posting this just as an FYI for anyone having problems with their wireless network adapter connecting to their network.
For a while now, I have been having problems connecting my netbook to a network. Initially I thouht the problem was with my home network, but when I tested it with other networks, both public and private, I had the same problem.
I tried tweaking everything to no avail.
Yesterday I was messing around and realised that Microsoft Security Essentials had not done a complete system scan for a while (it does a quick scan by default) so I set it to run and walked away (it took about 3 hours).
Turns out MSE picked up 3 Java exploit viruses (?) on my netbook. It removed them and now I have no problem connecting to my network. See links below for details.
So far, with luck, I have not detected any of the things that are listed in the article below (changing home page etc) so maybe I have caught this early enough but to be sure, I am going to run another MSE scan today.
Samsung N220 netbook
Realtek RTL8192 wireless adapter
Symptoms: Clicking on the 'wireless' icon in the system tray brings up few, if any visible networks
Computer will connect sometimes briefly, sometimes for longer, sometimes not at all.
Sometimes it's 'local access only', sometimes it connects to an 'unidentified public network' ( was that the virus trying to call out I wonder?)
Symptoms persist with all networks.
Java exploit link:
Encyclopedia entry: Exploit:Java/CVE-2012-4681 - Learn more about malware - Microsoft Malware Protection Center
Link to second and third exploit (they had similiar names.. one was 'generic' and one was not..
Encyclopedia entry: Exploit:Java/CVE-2012-1723!generic - Learn more about malware - Microsoft Malware Protection Center
For what it's worth, it worked for me so perhaps anyone else out there has the same problem.. maybe this will help.
This forum has helped me immensely in the past.. maybe now I can help back.. :D
Peppurr
I am posting this just as an FYI for anyone having problems with their wireless network adapter connecting to their network.
For a while now, I have been having problems connecting my netbook to a network. Initially I thouht the problem was with my home network, but when I tested it with other networks, both public and private, I had the same problem.
I tried tweaking everything to no avail.
Yesterday I was messing around and realised that Microsoft Security Essentials had not done a complete system scan for a while (it does a quick scan by default) so I set it to run and walked away (it took about 3 hours).
Turns out MSE picked up 3 Java exploit viruses (?) on my netbook. It removed them and now I have no problem connecting to my network. See links below for details.
So far, with luck, I have not detected any of the things that are listed in the article below (changing home page etc) so maybe I have caught this early enough but to be sure, I am going to run another MSE scan today.
Samsung N220 netbook
Realtek RTL8192 wireless adapter
Symptoms: Clicking on the 'wireless' icon in the system tray brings up few, if any visible networks
Computer will connect sometimes briefly, sometimes for longer, sometimes not at all.
Sometimes it's 'local access only', sometimes it connects to an 'unidentified public network' ( was that the virus trying to call out I wonder?)
Symptoms persist with all networks.
Java exploit link:
Encyclopedia entry: Exploit:Java/CVE-2012-4681 - Learn more about malware - Microsoft Malware Protection Center
Link to second and third exploit (they had similiar names.. one was 'generic' and one was not..
Encyclopedia entry: Exploit:Java/CVE-2012-1723!generic - Learn more about malware - Microsoft Malware Protection Center
For what it's worth, it worked for me so perhaps anyone else out there has the same problem.. maybe this will help.
This forum has helped me immensely in the past.. maybe now I can help back.. :D
Peppurr
My Computer
System One
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- Manufacturer/Model
- Dell XPS 420
- CPU
- Intel (R) Core(TM) Quad 6600 @2.4GHz
- Memory
- 4GB dual channel DDR2 667MHZ [4x 1024]
- Graphics card(s)
- NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX
- Sound Card
- Creative SB X-Fi
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Generic Dell PnP Monitor
- Screen Resolution
- 1680x1050
- Hard Drives
- 2 500GB Hard drives in a RAID 1 Mirror configuration.
- Mouse
- Standard optical mouse
- Keyboard
- Standard USB QWERTY keyboard
- Internet Speed
- Actual 2.2 Mbps
- Other Info
- Connected to DSL internet via ethernet via Netgear DGN2000 modem router. Also connected via ethernet to HP 8180 All-in-One Photosmart printer. 19-in1 card reader and 1 DVD and 1 DVD RW drives
