Protect Yourself From Tech Support Scams
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July 29, 2020
Protect Yourself From Tech Support Scams
Tech support scams are an industry-wide issue where scammers trick you into paying for unnecessary
technical support services. You can help protect yourself from scammers by verifying that the contact is a
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Windows could not automatically detect this network's proxy settings
Recently, I have noticed a small caution triangle appearing with my network icon on the task bar. When I right click and troubleshoot, it comes with this message. Windows could not automatically detect this network's proxy settings. My internet has been
very slow lately, but I'm wondering if this is a problem with my network? or is this something that my ISP has to fix?
(This post is intended for all reporting the problem)
Check Internet Options (from Control Panel or Internet Explorer Tools / Options /Connections Tab / LAN Settings and make sure Proxy Server is unchecked even if using Firefox. Check settings in Firefox in Tools / Options /Advanced Connections / Settings (should
be either use system proxy settings or no proxy).
Check for malware especially using malwarebytes.
Try these two commands in that order in an elevated command prompt. Do the first one first then reboot and try. If still bad try the second.
netsh winsock reset
netsh int ipv4 reset
If these don't help, please post the output of an ipconfig /all command
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I had the same problem this morning--couldn't connect on one computer but could on the other. Got the same message about not being able to detect the proxy settings. However, I used System Restore to reverse some changes that had happened during the
night and that corrected the problem.
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