Re: IE 6 "Page Not Found" problems

From: Jurren Bouman [MVP - Security] (jurren_at_hotmail.nl)
Date: 11/28/04 

Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 12:55:01 +0100

Muerta wrote:
> OK, it's been 3 weeks of this, so I'm seeking help. I've looked through the
> news groups, googled, checked the MS help base, tried some fixes, and I'm
> not getting there.
>
> About 3 weeks ago or so, I noted that when I'd go to a lot of sites, I'd see
> "page not found" in a lot of the ads that are displayed on the page. Little
> icons that they try to get you to click on would have blank squares with the
> little "x" up in the corner. A large number of links that I would click on
> to go to other pages would come up "page not found".
>
> About the same time, I started noting that my "back" button would only work
> about 30% of the time, and I'd have to right click on "back" and select.
>
> Looked at any software that I had installed in the week prior to, and all I
> had installed was, abcast, I think, for some radio stations in media player.
>
> Tried some DNS resolution fixes, no luck.
>
> Uninstalled abcast, did a registry clean, tried again. No luck.
>
> Did a "repair" on the OS (Win XP Pro), tried again, no luck.
>
> Ran virus check. Everything good.
>
> Went to MS database, pasted in the command string they instructed, came up
> with (can't remember file name) setup something-or-other "not found".
>
> Repair again, still no luck.
>
> I don't have IE listed on my add/remove(is this common for XP Pro?), so
> there's no way to do a repair from there.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Windows XP Pro *All updates*
>
> Asus A7N8X-E
> Barton 3200+
> 2 X 512's in dual channel mode
> several disk burners, all Plextor
> 2 160 gig SATA's in non-raid
> Lotsa photo/video editing programs
>
>
>
>

Did you scan the computer for spyware? Download a program called:
"Ad-aware", which you can download from this website:
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/ to get rid of any spyware
on your computer..
After launching the program click on the link: "Check for updates
now..." to update the reference file and then run the program. Support
for this program can be found at this forum:
http://www.lavasoftsupport.com/

Do you have SP2 installed on the XP machine?