IE 6.0 SP1 only works in compatibility mode or if iexplorer is ren

[Guest]

About a month ago Internet Explorer stopped working. I got "Page cannot be
displayed" even if I was browsing to a local page. I downloaded Enigma
Browser which works fine but is much slower than IE. I found that if I
renamed IExplorer.exe to Iexplorer3.exe for example it will run and browse
but on start up it says that it will be run in compatibility mode. In fact I
used the compatibility wizard to specify that iexplorer3.exe not be run in
compatibility mode and it works fine. As long as it isn't named
iexplorer.exe. I had to remove a lot of malware previously and I wonder if
one of them hooked this file in the registry and wasn't removed completely.

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP IE/OE]

About a month ago Internet Explorer stopped working. I got "Page
cannot be displayed" even if I was browsing to a local page. I
downloaded Enigma Browser which works fine but is much slower than
IE. I found that if I renamed IExplorer.exe to Iexplorer3.exe for
example it will run and browse but on start up it says that it will
be run in compatibility mode. In fact I used the compatibility
wizard to specify that iexplorer3.exe not be run in compatibility
mode and it works fine. As long as it isn't named iexplorer.exe. I
had to remove a lot of malware previously and I wonder if one of them
hooked this file in the registry and wasn't removed completely.

If it said Iexplorer.exe, that is spyware. The MS program is Iexplore.exe
Iexplorer.exe:
RapidBlaster: http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/RapidBlaster.html

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[Guest]

That was my mistake, it is Iexplore.exe. The "r" was my mistake. If I
rename iexplore.exe to iexplore1.exe or anything else it works fine.