Do a Find Files on your system for a file called Hosts (no extension).
Rename it to Hosts.old, reboot and see if that fixes your problem. If
so....
This may be caused by spyware/malware that's gotten installed on
your system. Use Ad-Aware and/or Spybot Search & Destroy to remove it.
Ad-Aware:
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
Spybot:
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
Good sites on how to install and use Spybot -
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/tutorial/index.html
http://tomcoyote.com/SPYBOT/index1.php
Also download a winsock repair tool, to have just in case cleaning up
anything found breaks it -
Winsock repair tools:
LSPFix- all versions of Windows
http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.zip
Winsock2 Fix- Win98, ME
http://www.bu.edu/pcsc/internetaccess/winsock2fix.html
LavaSoft- all versions of Windows-
http://digital-solutions.co.uk/lavasoft/whndnfix.zip
More information here:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/Darnit.htm
http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/ - runs a little script when loading page to
check for common parasites
If no joy, in IE go to Tools...Internet Options...Advanced tab, Browsing
section, uncheck "Enable third-party browser extensions", click Apply, click
Okay, reboot. If that solves your problem, then more troubleshooting is
needed to find out exactly which program, or Browser Helper Object (BHO) is
causing this problem. You don't want to leave it at that, as some BHOs are
useful or necessary - like Adobe Acrobat for reading .pdf files or an
essential component of Norton AV. Get BHODemon -
http://www.definitivesolutions.com/bhodemon.htm - read all about BHOs.
Disable all items, and then gradually replace one or two at a time to narrow
down the culprit.
Or if you have IE 6 SP-2 you can do this within the browser:
How to manage Internet Explorer add-ons in Windows XP Service Pack 2
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;883256
If all the above fails, then the problem could be something new that the
spyware cleaners above don't have in their databases yet. In that case....
HijackThis direct download:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/hijackthis.zip
Tutorial on how to use HijackThis:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/htlogtutorial.html
Then post it's output log to the forum here for analysis and feedback by the
parasite experts:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/forums/
Or the other HijackThis Logs forums listed here:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/forums.html
Or try this program to get some of the most nasty malware:
CWShredder direct download:
http://aumha.org/downloads/cwshredder.zip
An alternate resource for all of this and more:
http://www.aumha.org/secure.htm
More information on the Hosts file:
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
More troubleshooting that page not displayed error message:
WinXP:
"The Page Cannot Be Displayed" Error Message When You Try to Start Internet
Explorer
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326155
Error Message:"Page Cannot be Displayed" When You Browse the Internet
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/812336
Win9x/ME:
Error message: The page cannot be displayed
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/241344
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Jon R. Kennedy
Charlotte, NC, USA
(e-mail address removed)
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Hello
I got a serious problem with my browser IE 6. Like three days ago, i can't
browse any page on my computer. Every time that i open IE all i got is
"connecting to site 1.0.0.0" in the task bar. And like one minute after I
got
the message "The page cannot be displayed". I can't get any website open.
But
my yahoo messenger works fine. I really don't know what is going wrong.
Anyboby gt the smae problem.
I need your help.
