Dear Mr. Saunders:
Thanx for prompt reply. Will check all sites U noted soon as can.
However, for yr info, have just run trial versions of "Spy Sweeper",
"Privacy Guardian" & "Free Internet Eraser" which between them caught
3 Trojans and around 1000 malicious adware, which owner of this
computer got bombarded with while I was gone for last 6 months. This
all improved things quite a bit - but didn't fix I/E6.
For last few days before the above, I've manually cleaned out dozens
of malicious files of recent vintage from Win directory (whose guts I
viewed w/ a DOS filemanager editor), cleaned out all traces of
History, Cookies, Recent and what not (almost everything that's
cleaned automatically via "Spy Sweeper", which I just downloaded via
Netscape browser) and even manually hunted down malicious references
in the Registry and shredded the recycle bin after each delete
session. To get around automatic regeneration of some of this
so-called malware, I usually clean the recycle bin, etc., on a pure
DOS platform - since some just won't delete in Windows.
Yet, all to no avail re the I/E6 problem. Each time I run the
browser, it tries to download (if I let it) the file "all-ru.html"
from "
http://all-ru.net". This is some weird pop up which blocks all
access to the rest of the net via I/E6. Although I got rid of all
reference to it in the registry and deleted it and suspected
associated files (internally browsed by me for clues), it keeps
coming back as soon as I execute I/E6.
When I run I/E while Netscape is running and on the Net, the
"all-ru.html" file screens automatically, bypassing my security
settings in I/E6 - but it comes up in the Cyrillic script (looks more
like Russian than Greek to me). I forget what the usual English
version expounded. There were a couple of other similar problems
before I did the manual cleanup but these have since disappeared.
Well, that's all I know for the moment. I've usually been able to
clean this kind of stuff up manually, usually via DOS; but not this
time. I have the feeling that this is some kind of brand new bug as
even McAfee has no reference to it (I just checked on the net). So,
thanx loads for yr time and the links, which I'll check out a bit
later today. It's 6 AM here in Malaysia now and I'm ready for some
z's.
One thing 'though, it almost stands to reason that since Netscape is
not affected, then if there were a way to completely uninstall I/E6
and download and install the latest pack, then the problem might go
away (but I can also see why it might not). The point is, the browser
(about which I know very little, frankly) should be uninstallable,
regardless. Unfortunately, I don't see any ref to it in "Add/Remove
Programs" in my Win 98. Do you think that if I temporarily
move/rename/hide it, or, maybe just move some critical files, a new
pack download would install OK or repair a damaged I/E6?
Thanks again,
Ted...
