Re: Can't access any websites

From: Will Denny (willdenny_at_mvps.org)
Date: 09/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 07:12:46 +0100

Hi

Please try these programs to check for any spyware that may be on your
system:

Ad-Aware - www.lavasoftusa.com
Spybot - http://www.safer-networking.org/
CWShredder - http://forum.aumha.org/downloads/cwshredder.zip
Spy Sweeper - www.webroot.com

Try SpyWareBlaster to stop intrusions:

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

Also see the following links:

http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/security/articles/spyware.asp 

-- 
Will Denny
MVP - Windows Shell/User
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"Marianne B." <anonymous@foobar.com> wrote in message 
news:%23kFwRPrpEHA.324@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> XP Home SP1a
>
> I think I messed up.
> I logged on to my ISP (Juno) and I got some kind of popup
> in the middle of my screen that said I needed to download some
> kind of Microsoft component and I clicked on the button that
> said "Don't Download" because I thought it was probably not
> legit.  All of a sudden I couldn't access any web pages.
>
> I noticed that a red "-" had appeared on my Norton Internet
> Security icon, which means that the firewall is blocking all
> Internet access, so I logged off, opened NIS and unblocked it.
> The setting wouldn't take, so I rebooted and it then came up
> normally, without the red "-".  But I still can't access any web
> pages - I get the "The page cannot be displayed" page on
> everything I try.
>
> I can log on to Juno and transfer e-mail, but no web pages.
> My Norton AV defs are about 3 days old.  Could I have
> unknowingly allowed something by clicking "Don't Download"?
> Please don't tell me to ask Juno because even though I have a
> paid account, they charge $2 a minute for tech support and the
> tech support still sucks.
>
> Thanks,
>
> M.B.
>
>
>