Homepage problem

[Xylophone]

I run IE6 on XP SP1 (upgrading shortly to SP2). When I run IE, I get my ISP
(Tiscali) Homepage, but in each (note) of the margins of that Homepage,
which is narrower than normal, the edge of the 'Action Cancelled' page
appears. IE otherwise operates normally, e.g. when I go into any web site,
the pages appear as normal. I have had this behaviour before, but not of
late. I have run Spywareblaster, Adaware SE, Spybot, and Trojan Hunter, all
on full scans, with no problems reported. I also use Hostsman, and have it
set to 'merge' on update, with HTTP server disabled. I have noted this
morning that my JRE 1.5.0.7 object is 'damaged'. When I tried to install
the update to 0.9, I was informed the installer could not proceed 'with the
current Internet Connection proxy setting, please check install notes for
further info.' I did, but no such info I could see. I don't know if any
of these mentions are relevant to the problem. Advice/solutions gratefully
received

 

[Rob ^_^]

Hi Xylophone,

Your Tiscali homepage behaviour is from Hostsman blocking advertisements on
the page. You may want to enable the HTTP server in Hostsman to replace the
blocked ads with your own message.

Try a repair of the JRE object first, before doing an update (right click to
display the context menu).

Update to SP2 ASAP. It contains significant security updates that you need
to qualify for certain windows updates.

Do your windows updates regularly!

Regards.

 

[Xylophone]

Rob

Thanks for this. You will see I referred to Hostsman and JRE in my original
post. That said, you made me think, so I searched in Hostsman for Tiscali
entries, found one for ads, removed that host, and now IE behaves normally
once again. At least for the moment. Shouldn't be surprised if it goes bad
again. So watch this space!

 

[Rob ^_^]

Xylophone,

You're too pesimistic. IE is great. Its just a complicated beast that the
average joe finds hard to drive. Its all good, knowledge gained is a lesson
learnt!

Regards.