Posting for a friend, and I'm stuck for ideas. :)

[quote] Basically it was connecting to the internet and such fine earlier and i lent it to my mum who was downstairs and she had no issues with it. Ive brought it back upstairs and it wasn't loading anything so i restarted it and it also updated itself. Since then its connected to the internet but chrome keeps saying its being blocked by the firewall and skype and steam wont log in at all. Ive restarted the modem and laptop plenty of times and now im out of ideas [/quote]

any advice is appreciated xxxx

His Mum installed parental block software.

Remove any antiviruses.
Remove any DNS
Remove any VPN
Remove any parental control (LOL)

Also try creating "new network" to have a clean windows line. If that doesn't work, reinstalling network driver is probably the best idea out there.

It was AVG being a bitch :D
Lock this thread please :>
Thanks guys xx

 Shadsdoesntevenlift
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