So my desktop computer has seemed to want to take a shit on me again. I had a malware issue on Friday, that thankfully I was able to fix myself. Since then IE8 refuses to connect to the internet - which wouldn't be a problem since I don't use it - but yahoo messenager also refuses to connect because of the IE8 issue. I've tried redownloading IE, I've tried restoring the computer to an earlier date, I've tried doing things to the firewall like the diagnostic thing from IE tells me to. Nothing has worked. All the ports and shit are connected and fine, FireFox works just fine too.
Does anyone have any idea on how to fix this? Otherwise I'm going to end up having to reformat the stupid thing and lose some programs because I don't have copies of them anymore (Microsoft Office).