All sites - The page cannot be displayed

[Rick K]

Sometime during the last several days, IE started displaying "The page
cannot be displayed" for all web sites that I have tried to visit. Also, OE
stopped displaying graphics called from web sites. (Inserted JPGs display
OK.) I tried Firefox, and it works fine.

Am I correct in assuming that the IE and OE problems are caused by the same
thing?

I'm using Win2kPro and IE 6.00.2800.1123. I haven't updated Windows lately.

Just in case ... I deleted cookies and files, cleared history, then
Properties-Advanced-RestoreDefaults, then Add-RemovePrograms-Repair.

Is it time to re-install IE 6? If so, do I uninstall something first? Will
I lose my OE account settings?

Thanks, Rick

 

[Rick K]

Sometime during the last several days, IE started displaying "The page
cannot be displayed" for all web sites that I have tried to visit. Also, OE
stopped displaying graphics called from web sites. (Inserted JPGs display
OK.) I tried Firefox, and it works fine.

Am I correct in assuming that the IE and OE problems are caused by the same
thing?

I'm using Win2kPro and IE 6.00.2800.1123. I haven't updated Windows lately.

Just in case ... I deleted cookies and files, cleared history, then
Properties-Advanced-RestoreDefaults, then Add-RemovePrograms-Repair.

Is it time to re-install IE 6? If so, do I uninstall something first? Will
I lose my OE account settings?

Thanks, Rick

Further, today I found that I can't connect to radio stations with Media
Player.
This too, is new.
Are these all connected?
Is there a fix?

 

[Rick K]

Further, today I found that I can't connect to radio stations with Media
Player.
This too, is new.
Are these all connected?
Is there a fix?

Excuse the version number error, it's
Win2kProSP4, WMP 9.00.00.3250, IE 6.00.2800.1106, and OE 6.00.2800.1123.

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

Sometime during the last several days, IE started displaying "The page
cannot be displayed" for all web sites that I have tried to visit. Also, OE
stopped displaying graphics called from web sites. (Inserted JPGs display
OK.) I tried Firefox, and it works fine.

Am I correct in assuming that the IE and OE problems are caused by the same
thing?

Perhaps. The fact that Firefox is working discounts the idea of an DNS
issue and suggests the likelihood that the symptom is caused by malware.
I suppose msimn.exe could be targeted by malware just as easily as
iexplore.exe. Have you tried testing with a different mail reader too?
In fact, I think it would be interesting to trace what requests are generated
to render an HTML E-mail message with external graphics. E.g. what
User-Agent is given? If it is the same as IE and the malware had
implemented a filter on the TCP/IP stack it probably wouldn't matter which
app was issuing the request.


FWIW

Robert Aldwinckle
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