20 second delay for IE6 response

[Kelly]

When I open up ANY page in
IE, it opens right up - BUT it takes 20 seconds (exactly
every time) for me to be able to click on anything -
scroll, click a link, type into a box - anything. It
happens on every page, every time. It's been like this
for two days. I was away on vacation (the computer was
off) and when I turned it back on this was happening. I
ran SpyBot, Ad-Aware, and Trend Micro Internet Security.
I've tried "restart" twice and tried turing off the
computer for several minutes and turning it back on.
Nothing works. HELP!!
..

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

First eliminate any scumware.
See
Dealing with Unwanted Spyware, Parasites, Toolbars and Search Engines
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

Note that AdAware and SpyBot S & D will each catch some things the other
won't. Also, each needs to be updated before every use, even when just
downloaded. There's also a lot more to do than just those two programs.
CWShredder is also available here:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/cwshredder.zip
**Post your HijackThis log to
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/ or the Spyware forum at
http://forum.aumha.org/ for expert analysis, not here.**
Alternative download pages for Ad-Aware, Spybot, HijackThis and CWShredder
may be found on this page:
http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm.
If trying everything at that site does not fix the problem please post back
in the same thread.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE
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[Guest]

I just started seeing the same thing a few days ago, but in my case it only happens occasionally. I've seen some other posts regarding this problem, suggesting the Spysweeper is successful in eliminating it, but Ad-aware and Spybot S&D were not. I have not yet tried it though

Kyle