Problems with Internet Explorer

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From: Don (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/27/04 

Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 08:16:44 -0800

You could try downloading and running Ad-Aware
(http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/) and Spybot
Search & Destroy (http://spybot.safer-
networking.de/index.php?page=download)

Make sure before you run them that you download and
install the latest updates.

Don

>-----Original Message-----
>Help!!! :) I've been having some major problems with
>Internet Explorer. For awhile, I was unable to have more
>than one web page open at a time (I recieved an error
>everytime I tried to open a seperate window.) NOW anytime
I
>try to open IE I recieve an error and it will not open.
>When I try to click on a link that someone has sent me
>through an Instant Messanger..it will do the same thing.
I
>finally got my Netscape to work, and I downloaded the free
>trial of Norton (my subscrpition has been expired for a
>month)...and it found 3 files that were a "risk"...said
>something about the trojan.b___something virus. I clicked
>yes to fix it right away...and it then asked me if I'd
like
>to delete the files. I said yes...and then it said it was
>unable to do so!!! So..i deleted them manually.
>(winlink.dll, winlink.new, and winshow.new). Still..IE
>will not work:( When I click on the error data...it says
>something about winshow.dll. Anyone know what i can do?!?!
>Or what is wrong?!! Thank you for your time :)
>.
>

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