Loss of Connectivity

[Hudson]

Hello,

What's wrong when the little wheel goes around and around and around and never stops?

This happened to me last night. I rebooted and could not connect to any website. Finally, I turned the pc off for the night. In the morning, I did a quick scan with Avast free and it did not detect any virus. I went back online and was able to connect with the web. Is this a flaw of Win 7 or something else?

Thanks.

 

[TrainableMan]

Spinning green wheel just means the computer is processing. I know at least one website that uses a spinning orange wheel which would mean it is attempting to play the video. You can also get a spinning icon in the system tray if your network connection is lost and it is trying to reestablish.

It's possible your computer froze, or an ad blocker prevented a video from loading or your network connection was lost. So you will have to be more specific; what software was running and what were you doing at the time.

 

[Hudson]

I'm new to Avast, and from what I"m reading, avast may have caused the problem. No problem with my Net connectivity, at least not like this, before using this product.

 

[TrainableMan]

I don't know if that's the issue or not but whenever things suddenly go wrong it is a good idea to undo recent changes, so I would suggest you uninstall AVAST and see if things return to normal.