I bought a laptop from a friend and found out it had the gxgxy virus. it basically just spams these chinese popups forever while your connected to the internet and prevents you from installing any type of antivirus or anything that can get rid of it. i had a wireless connection set up and the internet worked fine with the exception of the virus, so i took it to another friend and he said id need to reformat to get rid of it since he couldnt do anything for me.
so now its reformatted and i have to do everything from scratch and ive never done it before. i reinstalled windows xp home edition w/service pack 2 from disc and thats basically all i know. im at a loss on how to get this wireless set up again like i had it before. i still have the wireless router set up and everything just like before, but the laptop is totally wiped so id have to start over. if anyone knows a really easy faq i can use to accomplish this, id really appreciate it. its a dell inspiron 1150.
dregus07-If wireless connection is already set, all you need to do is access the network thats already there.
From taskbar, click start>control panel>network connections
Do you see any connection options?
I am willing to bed the drivers are not installed. You would have to go to the mfg website and download and install the drivers. Who is the laptop mfg and model number?
Originally posted by dregus07: I bought a laptop from a friend and found out it had the gxgxy virus. it basically just spams these chinese popups forever while your connected to the internet and prevents you from installing any type of antivirus or anything that can get rid of it. i had a wireless connection set up and the internet worked fine with the exception of the virus, so i took it to another friend and he said id need to reformat to get rid of it since he couldnt do anything for me.
so now its reformatted and i have to do everything from scratch and ive never done it before. i reinstalled windows xp home edition w/service pack 2 from disc and thats basically all i know. im at a loss on how to get this wireless set up again like i had it before. i still have the wireless router set up and everything just like before, but the laptop is totally wiped so id have to start over. if anyone knows a really easy faq i can use to accomplish this, id really appreciate it. its a dell inspiron 1150.
If its a brand new install, most likely your missing your wireless driver..goto dell.com on another computer and download the wireless driver for the laptop, once you get that installed you should start to see a listing of available networks..
