Re: Ridiculous amount of error messages!!!

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Kim, that sounds an awful lot like spyware;

Check the links below and see if anything there helps, nothing will do any
harm anyway, and if you can post back with any info you obtain.

Ad Aware
http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-Personal-Edition/3000-8022_4-10045910.html?part=dl-ad-aware&subj=dl&tag=top5
SpyBot Search and Destroy
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/
Microsoft Antispyware
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=321cd7a2-6a57-4c57-a8bd-dbf62eda9671&displaylang=en
Important - LSP-Fix
http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm

Be aware that using either of these to actually remove spyware can result in
some programs refusing to work, in other words "Free" programs that you
downloaded on condition you accepted ads and so called "Research" may get
broken and you might want to uninstall them first. Some spyware actually
breaks Windows trying to force it's way in and you should arm yourself with
LSP-Fix before starting in case you lose internet connectivity.

http://www.broomeman.com/spyware/

Charlie


"Kim" <Kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:86E6CD63-BC98-4E41-9AE8-6A7B6CCBAE52@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>3 out of 5 times when trying to access a frequently used site via IE's
> "Favorites" function or typing keywords into a search engine, I receive:
> "The
> website address you entered could not be found" - even MORE ridiculous is
> that often when I am able to reach the site desired, seconds later I'm
> jerked
> off the site and given this error message.
>
> When I do get the error message, most of the time the error screen is not
> static - it keeps opening over and over and over; not even giving me the
> chance to enter anything into the try again search engine space!!?? What
> the
> heck can I do to be rid of this?
>
> Kim


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