Browser Problems

[Guest]

I am having a lot of intermittent problems surfing the web. IE is hanging
up!!. When I double click on the IE Icon it may, or may not connect & bring
up our Home Page. If it does connect, I may be able to surf for a while, and
then try to go to another website (or home page) and nothing happens. On the
IE bar on the bottom it just says Web Site found..........waiting for
reply.......... From this point it never connects again until I re-start my
machine. Even with re-starting it sometimes doesn't connect.
There is no pattern to it. I have the latest Windows updates (perhaps the
problem??), the latest version of IE, Norton Internet Security 2006, etc.
(which, by the way, shows I have no viruses, spyware, etc)
I have tried everything I know and it's still doing the same thing. I
thought it may be one of the Browser Add Ons, but have been
disabling/enabling them for the past week now & nothing seems to make a
difference. I am currently in the process of uninstalling the Windows Updates
one at a time to see if one of them is the problem.
This has been going on since approximately December 20th (We still had
Norton Antivirus 2003- Didn't install Norton IS until late December). Up
until then it was fine.
Can anyone help? Same problem?
PS - NOT my Cable/Internet connection (first thing I checked) - My email
works great!

 

[Alan Illeman]

I am having a lot of intermittent problems surfing the web. IE is hanging
up!!. When I double click on the IE Icon it may, or may not connect & bring
up our Home Page. If it does connect, I may be able to surf for a while, and
then try to go to another website (or home page) and nothing happens. On the
IE bar on the bottom it just says Web Site found..........waiting for
reply.......... From this point it never connects again until I re-start my
machine. Even with re-starting it sometimes doesn't connect.
There is no pattern to it. I have the latest Windows updates (perhaps the
problem??), the latest version of IE, Norton Internet Security 2006, etc.
(which, by the way, shows I have no viruses, spyware, etc)
I have tried everything I know and it's still doing the same thing. I
thought it may be one of the Browser Add Ons, but have been
disabling/enabling them for the past week now & nothing seems to make a
difference. I am currently in the process of uninstalling the Windows Updates
one at a time to see if one of them is the problem.
This has been going on since approximately December 20th (We still had
Norton Antivirus 2003- Didn't install Norton IS until late December). Up
until then it was fine.
Can anyone help? Same problem?
PS - NOT my Cable/Internet connection (first thing I checked) - My email
works great!

I'm really not the one to answer your question, but you should
say which version of Windows you are using, and if you have
a firewall.

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE]

I am having a lot of intermittent problems surfing the web. IE is
hanging up!!. When I double click on the IE Icon it may, or may not
connect & bring up our Home Page. If it does connect, I may be able
to surf for a while, and then try to go to another website (or home
page) and nothing happens. On the IE bar on the bottom it just says
Web Site found..........waiting for reply.......... From this point
it never connects again until I re-start my machine. Even with
re-starting it sometimes doesn't connect.
There is no pattern to it. I have the latest Windows updates (perhaps
the problem??), the latest version of IE, Norton Internet Security
2006, etc. (which, by the way, shows I have no viruses, spyware, etc)
I have tried everything I know and it's still doing the same thing. I
thought it may be one of the Browser Add Ons, but have been
disabling/enabling them for the past week now & nothing seems to make
a difference. I am currently in the process of uninstalling the
Windows Updates one at a time to see if one of them is the problem.
This has been going on since approximately December 20th (We still had
Norton Antivirus 2003- Didn't install Norton IS until late December).
Up until then it was fine.
Can anyone help? Same problem?
PS - NOT my Cable/Internet connection (first thing I checked) - My
email works great!

Norton will not detect everything.
Malware Removal:
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Removing_Malware

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