Re: Escaped characters are added to typed URLs
From: Randy Frickston (monkey_sausage_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/25/04
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Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 07:57:38 -0800
I suppose that I should have put that into my first post.
I've already cleaned all of the systems that I have had
this problem with. No malware, info miners, adware, etc.
I have also seen this on freshly installed operating
systems and have talked with co-workers about this problem
to verify that it's not just me seeing it.
>-----Original Message-----
>"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.
>
>--
>Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE
>Please respond in Newsgroup. Do not send email
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>Protect your PC
>http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/
>
>
>.
>
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