accessing home page

[Renee]

Iam operating windows 98se; ie6.0.2800.11061I I have
high speed cable. I can access any web page okay EXCEPT
for my "homepage" www.msnbc.com When I try to access
that website - the page comes up and in the top left hand
corner the little microsoft flag waves and rotates with
a "world". 9 out of 10 times it will stop on the world -
which freezes up the page (if it stops on the flag there
is no problem). The only way to go on if it stops on
the "world icon" is to do a control-ALT-delete and then
end task.

Appreciate any insight into this problem.
Thanks!
Renee

 

[H Leboeuf]

Rule out parasites.

Try this: Tools > Internet Options > Advanced > Browsing
Uncheck the Enable 3rd party browser extensions

If this clears your problem then find out who the culprit(s) is/are with
these tools.

Let AD-Aware Scan your system for advertising Spyware
http://www.lavasoftusa.com

and:

SpyBot-S&D
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p.s Reset the 3rd party browser setting.

More: This may be caused by a third-party program (adware, spyware,
parasite).
Get AdAware and SpyBot and run them both. Keep them up to date.
Dealing with Unwanted Spyware, Parasites, Toolbars and Search Engines
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

Additional link:
http://aumha.org/a/quickfix.htm


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