Ad being displayed when clicking any links in Outlook

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Tony Baker

Hi, When I display a message in Outlook which has a hyperlink in it
and when I click the link, an ad for "The ultimate guide to hidden web
bargains" pops up, regardless of whatever link I click on, or what
email I'm looking at.
Very annoying.
a) How can I fix this behaviour?
b) Any way of preventing it in the future?

The first thing I thought of was adware,
I run spybot on my system and I have just tried Ad-aware (latest
updates), neither of them fixed it. I have also run a virus scan
(latest updates) which found nothing.

So in any email in outlook which has a link in it, when I click the
link it still brings up the stupid ad for "The ultimate guide to
hidden web bargains".

One other thing, I have two accounts in Outlook, my hotmail and a pop
account. When I click on the inbox of my hotmail account I get the
error:
"The web page could not be found. This error could have been caused by
a bad or misspelled URL; following an invalid link; or your network
connection and/or transient conditions on the Internet. To check the
URL, choose the Home Page tab on the Properties dialog. Can't find
this file. Make sure the path and file name are correct."
If I right click my hotmail inbox and select properties, then go to
the Home page tab everything is greyed out. and I can't change the
Address which is:
___________________________

"C:\DOCUME~1\Tony\LOCALS~1\Temp\olfB50.tmp.html"
I also can't find that in the registry and when I browse to that
folder I can see that html file. This is the contents of it:
<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Hotmail</TITLE></HEAD><FRAMESET COLS="150,*"
FRAMEBORDER=0 FRAMESPACING=0><FRAME
SRC="http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/office/redirect/10/OutlookHotmailPane.asp?DPC={6E8DD200-AB04-11D1-B5B8-006097C998E7}&DCC={CC29E96F-7BC2-11D1-A921-00A0C91E2AA2}&AppName=Outlook&HelpLCID=2057&WebLocale=1033"
NAME="ADS"></FRAME><FRAME
SRC="C:/DOCUME~1/Tony/LOCALS~1/Temp/olrB50.tmp.html" NAME="MAIN"
MARGINWIDTH=0 MARGINHEIGHT=0 SCROLLING=NO></FRAME></FRAMESET></HTML>
___________________________

which is the preview pane of hotmail.

I'm wondering if there is some "preference" or setting in outlook
which says what program to use when clicking on a link and if what I
have discussed above has something to do with my troubles?

Many thanks for any help,

Tony.
 
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IslandHopper

Tony,

Ad-aware 6 updated their reference file just today, March 23. Hit the "check
for updates" button and try scanning again. Also, when you start Ad-aware 6
the first time, you should specify your default scanning options.The initial
configuration only includes the memory and default (simple) registry scan.
May not do it, but worth a try!

Hope this helps. Please post back either way.
Good Luck
 
T

Tony Baker

IslandHopper said:
Tony,

Ad-aware 6 updated their reference file just today, March 23. Hit the "check
for updates" button and try scanning again. Also, when you start Ad-aware 6
the first time, you should specify your default scanning options.The initial
configuration only includes the memory and default (simple) registry scan.
May not do it, but worth a try!

Hope this helps. Please post back either way.
Good Luck
Click to expand...

Still no good. I even deleted my "Program Files\Microsoft Office" and
re-installed. It still brings up that damn advert whenever I click on
any hyperlink in any email in Outlook.
 
T

Tony Baker

I managed to solve the problem, check out this forum:
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/t1074641871

Basically I had to change my URL file type, here is what it says in the forum:
_____________________________

Go to control panel, folder options, file types tab

Scroll down to the URL:Hypertext Transfer Protocols, click advanced, click edit
and make sure the following is in the application used to perform action box:

"C:\PROGRAM FILES\INTERNET EXPLORER\iexplore.exe" -nohome

The same applies for URL:Gopher

DDE should be set to: "%1",,-1,0,,,,
Application should say: IExplore
DDE application not running should be blank
Topic should be: WWW_OpenURL

Run each line individually.
Start – Run then type
regsvr32 Urlmon.dll
regsvr32 Shdocvw.dll
regsvr32 Shell32.dll
regsvr32 Oleaut32.dll
regsvr32 Actxprxy.dll
regsvr32 Mshtml.dll
If this does not work try System File Checker
Start – Run then type
sfc /scannow (note the space) have your XP CD handy this time as you may
be prompted for it.
 

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