Re: IE 6.0

Tech-Archive recommends: Repair Windows Errors & Optimize Windows Performance

From: Phil (itchy&scratchy_at_homer.doh.no.spam)
Date: 08/30/04 

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 10:57:59 -0400

Your problems were related to spyware, adware, trojans, home page
hi-jackers, and or malware.
You've got spyware, adware, a trojan, a search engine hijacker, or a home
page hijacker.

Run these tools weekly
Spybot -- http://www.safer-networking.org/
Ad-aware -- http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

CWShredder: http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4086.html

"Sanjeev" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:089601c48e9f$efb77b20$a401280a@phx.gbl
> Recently, just before Service Pack 2 was released, my IE
> 6.0 began to misbehave, and eventually crashed, and
> whenever I opened IE 6.0 it would give a blank page or
> sometimes a page called "home Search" with the message in
> the bottom bar saying : loading
> picture ://res.shdoclc.dll/flag.gif... and there would be
> no further response.Whenever I set the homepage to what I
> wanted, it would change it back to blank.Eventually I
> started using Opera Browser, which also crashed after a
> day.Finally, I had to re-install my OS because of this
> problem. Incidently, service pack 2 is now here, will it
> help in anyway to reduce the occurence of such problems? I
> am cautious about upgrading to Service Pack 2 at the
> moment.

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