Dont want to go to FIREFOX!!! Increasing IE6 page load woes

[todd.roat]

We have been having more and more occurrences of IE6 failing to load
pages. This may be a little to general but here is what we have.
Networked systems wherein some systems can access a web page and a few
other cant. The netwrok people have verified that there are no DNS
issues. All the cahces and temp files have been purged. No spyware.
No popup blockers activated. No hidden popup blockers via Google or
Yahoo toolbars. I reset all IE6 Security setting back to defaults. No
viruses. Still wont load on one system. System next door running same
setup (XP Pro) fires it up no problem. We are totally convinced its an
IE quirk at this point.

We have also tried several registry changes we found suggested in
varius newsgroups. Also unregistered and re-registered various
components (.ocx and .dlls). Nothing. There is also nothing special
about the pages being accessed. One has a small benign active x
component and one is a basic https secure site.

Loaded all Windows updates, even loaded new Java Runtime. still
nothing. Other computers, not problem. Worse i that it works great in
Firefox on that system. I REALLY dont want to become a Firefox guy,
but with the ever increasing number of these perplexing web site issues
its getting harder.

Is there any way to troubleshoot we may have missed We cant find a
pattern in the sites that wont load nor the random nature when IE6 on a
given computer fails to load a page.

One of the more common ones we see now is OWA Outlook Exchange
webaccess issues wherein people can view their mail but can not reply
or open the email - and shows a yellow Error on Page icon in the lower
left. Most people fix this by turning off a pop up blcokers but ours
are off!!! May be an Exchnage issue thou not IE, but I think its IE.
IE is the only common denominator.

Any thoughts, info, insights, condolances welcome!

 

[PA Bear]

Run a /thorough/ check for hijackware on the problem machines (including
posting a HijackThis log from each to an appropriate forum).

Checking for/Help with Hijackware
http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm
http://aumha.org/a/quickfix.htm
http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?t=5878
http://wiki.castlecops.com/Malware_Removal_and_Prevention:_Introduction
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/data/prevention.htm
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/tshoot.html
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/Malware_Defence.htm
http://defendingyourmachine.blogspot.com/
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Removing_Malware

When all else fails, HijackThis v1.99.1
(http://aumha.net/downloads/hijackthis.zip) is the preferred tool to use.
It will help you to both identify and remove any hijackware/spyware. **Post
your log to http://forums.spybot.info/forumdisplay.php?f=22,
http://castlecops.com/forum67.html,
http://forums.subratam.org/index.php?showforum=7,
http://aumha.net/viewforum.php?f=30, or other appropriate forums for expert
analysis, not here.**

 

[Guest]

Thank you! Apologized for double post ;^) Will study all these leads and
the info contained therein.

 

[Gordon]

I REALLY dont want to become a Firefox
guy,

Why ever not? I run both. At the moment, the current version of Firefox
beats IE7 Beta into a cocked hat.

 

[Guest]

I guess because overall, for the most part until recently, IE6 has been fine.
Moreover, its what our entire 70 computer department is used to. They dont
like change, are pro's at IE6, and we dont want the headache of having to
retrain them all on Firefow nuances just because 10% of the systems are
developing these wierd issues. Of course that percentage seems to be growing,
hopefully due to unidentified hijacks.

Additionally, Firefox has been less than perfect interacting with our
institutions exchnage Outlook Web Access. We'll see....

 

[Alan]

Don't forget to report back with your experiences, it may help others. I've
had the problem 3 times- and it wasn't a virus or spyware. The last time was
immediately after 3 MS security updates, I removed all 3 but it did not
immediately solve the issue but it started working of its own accord after a
few days. I then reapplied those updates but the thing worked OK. Perhaps it
was the application of 3 updates at once. I've tried
uninstalling/reinstalling and all sorts, nothing helps until it seems to
decide to co-operate by itself.

Firefox is good, I use it in preference to IE now but you can't access the
security updates- another MS monopoly. On occasion Firefox has a fit and
crashes, but at least it does work on a restart. I have a slight preference
for Firefox but IE does a few things better- when it decides it will access
the web.

 

[Fuzzy Logic]

(e-mail address removed) wrote in @e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com:

We have been having more and more occurrences of IE6 failing to load
pages. This may be a little to general but here is what we have.
Networked systems wherein some systems can access a web page and a few
other cant. The netwrok people have verified that there are no DNS
issues. All the cahces and temp files have been purged. No spyware.
No popup blockers activated. No hidden popup blockers via Google or
Yahoo toolbars. I reset all IE6 Security setting back to defaults. No
viruses. Still wont load on one system. System next door running same
setup (XP Pro) fires it up no problem. We are totally convinced its an
IE quirk at this point.

We have also tried several registry changes we found suggested in
varius newsgroups. Also unregistered and re-registered various
components (.ocx and .dlls). Nothing. There is also nothing special
about the pages being accessed. One has a small benign active x
component and one is a basic https secure site.

Loaded all Windows updates, even loaded new Java Runtime. still
nothing. Other computers, not problem. Worse i that it works great in
Firefox on that system. I REALLY dont want to become a Firefox guy,
but with the ever increasing number of these perplexing web site issues
its getting harder.

Is there any way to troubleshoot we may have missed We cant find a
pattern in the sites that wont load nor the random nature when IE6 on a
given computer fails to load a page.

One of the more common ones we see now is OWA Outlook Exchange
webaccess issues wherein people can view their mail but can not reply
or open the email - and shows a yellow Error on Page icon in the lower
left. Most people fix this by turning off a pop up blcokers but ours
are off!!! May be an Exchnage issue thou not IE, but I think its IE.
IE is the only common denominator.

Any thoughts, info, insights, condolances welcome!

We had similar problems here were certain sites would load on some machines
and not others. It actually turned out to be a setting on our Cisco
firewall. Here is more info:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/vpndevc/ps2030/products_tech_note0918
6a00804c8b9f.shtml

The setting is exceed-mss allow