Re: Escaped characters are added to typed URLs

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From: Frank Saunders, MS-MVP (franksaunders_at_mvps.org)
Date: 03/25/04 

Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 19:17:56 -0600

"Randy Frickston" <monkey_sausage@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:12e3c01c411ec$17ca8980$a401280a@phx.gbl
> Sometimes (not all) when I type a URL into the address bar
> in IE6, the browser prepends the URL with an escaped space
> (for example, "www.mydomain.com" becomes "%
> 20www.mydomain.com") which, of course, results in "The
> page can not be displayed".
> To begin with, I believed that this was a personal issue
> and that I might simply be highlighting the URL in the
> address bar and then clearing it by typing a space before
> typing the URL. I modified the method by which I clear the
> address bar in several ways. First I started by using a
> backspace to clear the bar and then, when that failed, I
> started just typing in the URL without bothering to clear
> the bar (since the highlightes section is automatically
> replaced with whatever I type in).
> I discovered that many people are actually having this
> problem, though I find no knowledge base articles on the
> subject (perhaps a poor search?) and no articles in this
> newsgroup.
> This has always been a real annoyance for me (thankfully
> there are other browsers out there that DON'T do this).
> Especially because, when I then try and re-type the URL,
> IE keeps ahold of the previously-typed, incorrect URL and
> I have to actually close the browser window and open a new
> one, in order to retype the correct URL.
> Any suggestions?

First eliminate any scumware.
See
Dealing with Unwanted Spyware, Parasites, Toolbars and Search Engines
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

Note that AdAware and SpyBot S & D will each catch some things the other
won't. Also, each needs to be updated before every use, even when just
downloaded. There's also a lot more to do than just those two programs.
CWShredder is also available here:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/cwshredder.zip
**Post your HijackThis log to
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/ or the Spyware forum at
http://forum.aumha.org/ for expert analysis, not here.**
Alternative download pages for Ad-Aware, Spybot, HijackThis and CWShredder
may be found on this page:
http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm.
If trying everything at that site does not fix the problem please post back
in the same thread. 

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