Re: Page Can Not Be Displayed

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From: Malke (malke_at_nospoonnotreally.com)
Date: 04/23/04 

Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 20:32:57 -0700

Clayton wrote:

> 90% of the time when I goto a website it says page can not be
> displayed, then when I refresh, the page displays ok, I don't know
> what is going one here, I run no firewall software nor have I altered
> any security settings in IE.
>
> The only security I update is through Windows Update.
>
> This is annoying the hell out of me.

Issues like this are often caused by spyware. Remove spyware with tools
like Spybot S&D from www.safer-networking.org and Ad-aware from
www.lavasoftusa.com. Be sure to update these programs first. They are
free, so run them both. Also, it is most useful to run these programs
in Safe Mode. Also delete your Temporary Internet Files (IE
Tools>Options).

Malke 

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