No Internet connection bug

[loxley192]

Hi Guys
New to this forum and looking for some advice.
My wife has a MacBook around 2 years old. Its so slow, when opening or trying to open a page from the internet a small un official looking box pops up with "no internet connection" (even though it is connected to my network) if I close it, it comes back again, it has a help box, when clicked asks you to go to network setup and set up a new network.
I can't get rid of it, any pointers please.

 

[AmazingHenry]

Strange problem. A MacBook isn't a PowerPC Mac (which are at least 10 years old) but I can try to help. How is it connected? Wi-Fi, I assume? Also, could you attach a screenshot of this dialog box you're seeing?

 

[loxley192]

Strange problem. A MacBook isn't a PowerPC Mac (which are at least 10 years old) but I can try to help. How is it connected? Wi-Fi, I assume? Also, could you attach a screenshot of this dialog box you're seeing?

Thanks for the response.
Its a MacBook Pro running OS Sierra.
Image attached.
Recently cleared cache and cookies but its running so slow I'm thinking about doing a factory reset.

 

[AmazingHenry]

Thanks for the response.
Its a MacBook Pro running OS Sierra.
Image attached.
Recently cleared cache and cookies but its running so slow I'm thinking about doing a factory reset.

That doesn't look like a real Apple dialog box. I've gotten things like that before and they are almost always fakes. I'm not one hundred percent sure, so I'm really sorry if I'm wrong, but that's probably a fake. What web browser are you using, and can you access the Internet through other applications, such as Mail?

 

[loxley192]

That doesn't look like a real Apple dialog box. I've gotten things like that before and they are almost always fakes. I'm not one hundred percent sure, so I'm really sorry if I'm wrong, but that's probably a fake. What web browser are you using, and can you access the Internet through other applications, such as Mail?

That doesn't look like a real Apple dialog box. I've gotten things like that before and they are almost always fakes. I'm not one hundred percent sure, so I'm really sorry if I'm wrong, but that's probably a fake. What web browser are you using, and can you access the Internet through other applications, such as Mail?

Definitely not an Apple box, guessed it was fake, just can't stop it.
Everything works just that dam box keeps popping up and everything is so slow and freezes.

 

[AmazingHenry]

Definitely not an Apple box, guessed it was fake, just can't stop it.
Everything works just that dam box keeps popping up and everything is so slow and freezes.

I can't help unless you can answer these questions:
What web browser are you using?
Can you access the Internet through other apps like Mail?

 

[loxley192]

I can't help unless you can answer these questions:
What web browser are you using?
Can you access the Internet through other apps like Mail?

Using Chrome, yes can access through other apps.
Just been through and had a good clean out but that dam box still comes up and still pretty slow.

 

[AmazingHenry]

Using Chrome, yes can access through other apps.
Just been through and had a good clean out but that dam box still comes up and still pretty slow.

That dialog box actually looks like something you might see in Chrome, and it could be a bug/error. I've always used Safari or Firefox, so I don't know anything about Chrome, sorry. You could try a different browser, or back up your things and do a clean install of the OS. That's all I can tell you, sorry.

 

[RootBeerMan]

HFTaylor12 has the right of. That's not an Apple box. I'd suggest you download something like Malwarebytes and/or a virus scanner. Your wife might have picked up a bit of malware somewhere. If it's only in Chrome that it's showing up, you might try uninstalling Chrome and then reinstalling it.

A look at your activity monitor might help to determine if something is running in the background and eating resources.

 

[loxley192]

HFTaylor12 has the right of. That's not an Apple box. I'd suggest you download something like Malwarebytes and/or a virus scanner. Your wife might have picked up a bit of malware somewhere. If it's only in Chrome that it's showing up, you might try uninstalling Chrome and then reinstalling it.

A look at your activity monitor might help to determine if something is running in the background and eating resources.

HFTaylor12 has the right of. That's not an Apple box. I'd suggest you download something like Malwarebytes and/or a virus scanner. Your wife might have picked up a bit of malware somewhere. If it's only in Chrome that it's showing up, you might try uninstalling Chrome and then reinstalling it.

A look at your activity monitor might help to determine if something is running in the background and eating resources.

Only just downloaded Chrome this morning, was using Firefox until then, was hoping that would solve the issue.