Can someone help me with a computer problem?

[Flikka]

This previous Christmas, I bought a Sony Vaio laptop.
Its a Windows 7 computer.
I got a message saying that Vaio no longer supported my Internet Security, and then it wouldn't let me connect to the internet at all. I tried a lot of things to try to fix it, but nothing has worked.
I called Sony and asked them for help, but they wanted me to bring my computer down to California, and pay 50$ USD for them to have someone look at it for any problems.
Obviously, i'm not going to do that, so I decided to ask for some help here.


Thanks.

[gh0st]

screen shots?

[Kulverstukas]

Reinstall the system to WindowsXP or Ubuntu -> problem solved.

[I_Learning_I]

Have you checked hosts file, disabling proxy in IE, using another browser and NOT importing configurations from other browsers?
Have you tried telnet google.com 80?
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[Infinityexists]

This previous Christmas, I bought a Sony Vaio laptop.
Its a Windows 7 computer.
I got a message saying that Vaio no longer supported my Internet Security, and then it wouldn't let me connect to the internet at all. I tried a lot of things to try to fix it, but nothing has worked.
I called Sony and asked them for help, but they wanted me to bring my computer down to California, and pay 50$ USD for them to have someone look at it for any problems.
Obviously, i'm not going to do that, so I decided to ask for some help here.


Thanks.

Your error is so rare :| I couldn't be able to find it anywhere on the internet

Here goes few tips,

Did you tell Sony that your Laptop is still in a warranty period ? If you've bought a brand new laptop then you're still in a warranty period so Sony shouldn't charge you to look into the problem.

If this doesn't solve your problem then,


Do you have a Recovery Media ? (a disc that comes along the Laptop to install OS if it is corrupted)
If you don't have recovery media then create one from the 'Vaio Care Center' and Re-install the OS through that disc.


P.S: Vaio Care center should be found in the Start menu.