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I have suddenly stopped being able to use my browser (IE6):
Pressing enter on a URL puts a check mark in WORK OFFLINE in the file menu
and the browser starts asking me if I want to connect to my dialup
connection (I have an always-on broadband connection). Unchecking the line
doesnt seem to improve things (it did at first but now never works AND
sometimes
the browser thinks about it for about ten seconds before it puts the check
mark in WORK OFFLINE):
Curiously I discovered that clicking on a link DOES work and at the moment I
am having to go to
every URL I want to access by entering the link in google and clicking on
the link (which is usually created)
I tried complaining to the cable-modem ISP and it was they who diagnosed
this mysterious check mark:
I removed it and the browser/connection started working properly but as I
say, never for long.
But sometimes when I remove it all that happens is that it reappears as soon
as I press ENTER on trying to access the URL again.
(Outlook Express seems to think it is offline most of the time as well.
Outlook doesnt seem to suffer from this problem)
I did a virus check and it doesn't appear to be a virus. Is this a known
problem and/or does anyone know what is causing this?
I did turn off the DNS and DCHP services but it did nothing. AdAware and
Spybot reveal nothing on this
Eventually I got so exasperated with Internet Explorer and with the people
at the Microsoft forums not having any idea about this that that I installed
Firefox
Even more annoyingly, Firefox does the same thing: This seems to be some
problem with either with a trojan or with the OS, Windows XP Pro SP1
Pressing enter on a URL puts a check mark in WORK OFFLINE in the file menu
and the browser starts asking me if I want to connect to my dialup
connection (I have an always-on broadband connection). Unchecking the line
doesnt seem to improve things (it did at first but now never works AND
sometimes
the browser thinks about it for about ten seconds before it puts the check
mark in WORK OFFLINE):
Curiously I discovered that clicking on a link DOES work and at the moment I
am having to go to
every URL I want to access by entering the link in google and clicking on
the link (which is usually created)
I tried complaining to the cable-modem ISP and it was they who diagnosed
this mysterious check mark:
I removed it and the browser/connection started working properly but as I
say, never for long.
But sometimes when I remove it all that happens is that it reappears as soon
as I press ENTER on trying to access the URL again.
(Outlook Express seems to think it is offline most of the time as well.
Outlook doesnt seem to suffer from this problem)
I did a virus check and it doesn't appear to be a virus. Is this a known
problem and/or does anyone know what is causing this?
I did turn off the DNS and DCHP services but it did nothing. AdAware and
Spybot reveal nothing on this
Eventually I got so exasperated with Internet Explorer and with the people
at the Microsoft forums not having any idea about this that that I installed
Firefox
Even more annoyingly, Firefox does the same thing: This seems to be some
problem with either with a trojan or with the OS, Windows XP Pro SP1