Norton, first and formost. It's like a virus that you pay for. It generates useless popups, slows down your system, then begs for more money. Microsoft Security essentials and malwarebytes, you can happily get by with.
The fact that it's limited to just IE or Norton suggest that it's either Norton itself, or its firewall that's causing things to go funny. For a second opinion, it might be some sort of funky 'network manager' that some WiFi drivers come packaged with that're either broken, or borked to work only with IE because that's all anyone uses.
If the laptop still has the license key sticker on it - usually the base - you can use it and a .iso image of Windows 7 to make a fresh install and not worry about any of it.
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?
The fact that it's limited to just IE or Norton suggest that it's either Norton itself, or its firewall that's causing things to go funny. For a second opinion, it might be some sort of funky 'network manager' that some WiFi drivers come packaged with that're either broken, or borked to work only with IE because that's all anyone uses.
If the laptop still has the license key sticker on it - usually the base - you can use it and a .iso image of Windows 7 to make a fresh install and not worry about any of it.
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?