Browser shuts itself down when entering certain sites...

[Eric]

My web browser shuts itself down when I go to various web
pages. It now won't let me visit the time.gov page for the
central United States time zone as well as various other
seemingly random pages. Any suggestions?

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

My web browser shuts itself down when I go to various web
pages. It now won't let me visit the time.gov page for the
central United States time zone as well as various other
seemingly random pages. Any suggestions?

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
Please respond in Newsgroup. Do not send email
http://www.fjsmjs.com
Protect your PC
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

 

[Eric]

Deleting the scumware didn't help. I used both Spybot and
Ad-Aware and the pages still close.

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

Deleting the scumware didn't help. I used both Spybot and
Ad-Aware and the pages still close.

Did you update both of them before scanning?
Did you use CWShredder?
Where did you post your HijackThis log?

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE
Please respond in Newsgroup. Do not send email
http://www.fjsmjs.com
Protect your PC
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

 

[Eric]

I've killed all the scumware with Adaware and Spybot but
my page still shuts down. What sould I do?