I found this response from somebody who had this problem
last week:
Subject: Re: IE makes me type "http://" or it says it
can't find website!
From: "H Leboeuf" <(E-Mail Removed)> Sent:
5/17/2004 6:12:33 AM
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"Allen Enriquez" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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"IE is making me type "http://" before everything!
Before, I could type
> www.google.com or google.com and it would work. now I
can't load ANY webpage without typing the full address.
This is getting very annoying. Any Ideas???"
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>Something has happened to explorer that requires me to
>input http:// before I enter a www. website. Anyone
know
>the fix for this problem? I have to believe some
settings
>have changed to cause this to happen. Any info on this
>will be appreciated.
>
>Stumpy
>.
>