Can't get a link to stop highlighting "purple"

[Kolja]

Hello.

I will try to make this as brief and as comprehensible as
possible.

There is a word on my web site that appears purple (as if
I had clicked on it or visited it at some time) no matter
what I do. I have cleared everything (history, cache,
temporary interent files, everything I can think of
regardless of how redundant it might be), but it keeps
highlighting "purple".

I have even deleted this word from my web site, uploaded
the file, refreshed the file, added the word and link
again, re-uploaded it, and it still appeared "purple".

But it does not appear that way to anybody else.

When I use www.spiderproxy.com to view my website
remotely, it appears "blue" (as it should by all rights).

At first I questioned my web authoring program
(Dreamweaver) and explored possible causes with their
technical support at the following thread...

http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messagevi
ew.cfm?
catid=189&threadid=782842&CFID=15730155&CFTOKEN=49348a162a3
8ea7c-0224DE61-A4FE-FD31-
10CCDC23F5204E27&jsessionid=4830160801078072625219#2812566

....but to no avail. I now feel that my version of IE is
somehow not completely emptying when I delete various
histories.

Here is the offending link:
http://www.wakinglands.com/htm_files/the_main_page.htm

To find the word that I am talking about, scroll down the
daily news items to "Prestige Class Free-for-All"
dated "13 February 2004". The link to "Races" is the one
that appears Purple to me no matter what I do.

Please do not tell me that it appears "blue" to you. I
know that it does. It is simply appearing blue to me.

Again, any help would be appreciated. Many thanks.

Kolja

 

[Don Varnau]

Kolja,
It looks blue to me ;-)
But, you probably have corruption in your History folder or it's index.dat
file.

Delete the damaged History folder- a new one will be created on restart.
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/delcache.htm

Or... Free History Eraser from
http://smartprotector.com/eraser/free-history-eraser.htm will delete the
History folder in Windows 9x,2K, XP.

Regards,
Don

 

[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.

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