Steam will not start, says I need to connect to the internet

[Dystopian]

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I can't connect to steam now because of that error. That's if I use the main exe, too. If I use a shortcut, it looks for steaminstall.msi.

I can connect on both IE and Firefox, but Steam won't acknowledge it. If there is a way to fix this without re-installing, I'd like to know, but I'll re-install if I must.

I should note I got hit with the AV2010 trojan and it fucked my shit up.

[alphaspida]

Check your firewall settings with your antivirus.

[QUOTE=Dystopian;20416132]I should note I got hit with the AV2010 trojan and it fucked my shit up.[/QUOTE]

I don't know what that is, but it probably could have messed up your system. Do a system recovery to an earlier date before you got hit, after you tried the advice above.

[R4iden]

[QUOTE=alphaspida;20417144]Check your firewall settings with your antivirus.

I don't know what that is, but it probably could have messed up your system. Do a system recovery to an earlier date before you got hit, after you tried the advice above.[/QUOTE]

Do this.

[Mokkan13]

I had this issue. Open ports in firewall.

[Legend286]

[QUOTE=Dystopian;20416132]
I should note I got hit with the AV2010 trojan and it fucked my shit up.[/QUOTE]

I'd make sure you are free from this trojan first.

Try deleting everything in your steam folder except steamapps and steam.exe and then run the exe, this will redownload / reinstall steam but you won't loose your games. Requires a re-log in.

[Dystopian]

[QUOTE=Legend286;20446633]I'd make sure you are free from this trojan first.

Try deleting everything in your steam folder except steamapps and steam.exe and then run the exe, this will redownload / reinstall steam but you won't loose your games. Requires a re-log in.[/QUOTE]

Thank you so much, man, it worked and only took me 1 minute to fix as opposed to hours of downloading of re-installing.

+5 internets for you.