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Hopefully someone can help me. I had been having some problems with my computer, so I did DrWeb in safe mode at the advice of a friend, and the program removed some stuff from my computer.

When I rebooted my computer, I had no internet access. When I bring up my device manager, under Network Adapters, everything listed there (the Direct Parallel, Intel Network Connection, and a bunch of WAN Miniports) has the yellow circle with the ! mark saying that the drivers are missing or corrupt. I've tried reinstalling the drivers, with no luck. So I'm still without internet access.

I would appreciate any kind of help!

try restore your computer

I tried restoring it, but it said it couldn't restore my computer and no changes have been made.

if this help you
right click the internet explorer, properties, connections, run the setup connection wizard

sorry, internet properties will not fix yellow or red devices found by the Device Manager.

You've lost the OEM drivers for your machine

Get a USB 2.0 thumbdrive and take it to a maching which has internet access.
Google for your machine make and model number, and look for the official
OEM site. From there you will need the Support or Download page.
When you find the exact model number, you will be able to download all the
drivers specific to your machine to the thumbdrive. When done, be sure to
use the Safe Remove icon in the system tray!

Now you can take the thumbdrive to your system and install all the driver.
Verify your work via the Device Manager. Once they're all correct, you need
to reboot to get things running.

NOW you can setup a New Network Connection.

Hi, thank you for your reply. I have a Dell Dimension 3000, and I'm on the Dell website. When I look under Support and Drivers, I did get one Network Driver, and when I tried to update the driver for my machine, it told me it already had the most current driver. So, still no luck. Let me know if I missed something.