Re: Internet explorer 6 on the fritz. any help?.....

From: dan lawson (danlawson_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/13/04 

Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 08:11:01 -0700

Don,

i have run ad-aware, stinger, norton and spybot. the only thing that found
anything was the spybot one which found 5 DSO entries. but it doesn't seem to
be able to get rid of them.

the strange thing is that if i take down my norton firewall and use my
windows one it works fine. it's as if my norton firewall is blocking
everything. i can use msn explorer and my outlook fine. it just seems to be
my internet explorer.

and i'm still wondering what the 'riogrande' site is that it seems to be
trying to find before it dies.

cheers

dan

"Don Varnau" wrote:

> Dan,
> Sounds like you've been hijacked. Work through the solutions (CWShredder,
> Ad-aware, Spybot) at
> http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm Also note the security tips on that
> page.
>
> Additional information at:
> The Parasite Fight http://www.aumha.org/a/quickfix.htm
> More security tips at http://www.aumha.org/a/parasite.htm
> Bugs, Glitches & Stuffups: http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/Darnit.htm
>
> Hope this helps,
> Don
> --
> MVP IE/OE
> Please reply to the newsgroup so that others may participate.
>
>
> "dan lawson" <dan lawson@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:7D2AC998-ABE8-4BB1-B326-1D7C7401B85E@microsoft.com...
> > My explorer went down yesterday and i can't find out how or why. it seems
> to
> > be trying to find the site riogrande then i get the old cannot find
> > server/page cannot be displayed. everything else seems to be working fine
> and
> > all my virus definitions windows updates are current and i have run loads
> of
> > virus checks. i did a search on the internet for 'riogrande virus' and it
> > came up with the bugbear virus which doesn't seem to be anywhere on my
> > computer, or at least nothing is detecting it.
> >
> > it's probably something really simple but at the moment frankly, i'm
> stumped.
>
>

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