A couple days ago, I noticed I am no longer able to access the internet from my laptop. I use my home wireless connection this laptop The wireless shows connected and the signal strength is excellent; however, when I click internet explorer, it will open a page, say connecting, then it will show my homepage-www.google.com, and the bar at the bottom looks as if it is trying to access the internet but it doesn't go through. There is a small black clock on the bottom left hand corner of the page that I have never seen before it started this problem. It will allow me to access a couple sights, but only government ones, which now I do not want to acces with this comp. Also, when I look at task manager I see that I am running several svchost.exe... 3 show System, 2 network service and 1 local service. Is this a problem? Any suggestions as to what this might be?

Im not sure what your problem is, but I found a great site I use to identify running processes in TaskManager... http://www.fileresearchcenter.com/ Click on the free scan, and download the activeX control. (i found it to be a clean download, with no spy or virus scans picking it up). It tells you about your runnning applications, DLL's, BHO's, and startup apps, and whether theyre safe or not. Also you can look up individual files and it will tell you all about it. I use this site often and find it to be a useful tool. Hope this helps some

Svchost.exe runs your services. It's probably not the problem. I'm curious; can you reach any other PC on your home network?

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Ya know, I don't have an anti-virus program installed...

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My reply didn't go through... anyway, I am able to access the internet on other comps in the household. I am not able to access it through this laptop so I am not able to run any scans from the internet. I do have Norton and it is up to date and always has been? Thanks!