IE 6 Crashing

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I have conducted a Norton Virus Scan and an Ad-aware scan (custom) of my XP
Home version PC. There are no viruses or ad-ware installed on my PC, yet over
the last few weeks my IE 6 just keeps crashing at various times. I will be
looking at a web page, then when i click 'back' or 'home' or another shortcut
it goes white and looks like it is trying to load a new page for example and
it wont go any further. When I go to log off it comes up with a grey box
saying IE 6 has not been closed properly and a progress bar appears and its
says end now or wait. So something is wrong. If it is not a virus or adware,
what is it? Any ideas anyone. (I do have SP2 by the way). Thanks
 
No I am not. That would cost extra and as I already have Norton 2005,
Ad-aware, Spybot, Windows own firewall, and the new Windows security center
on SP2 i dont see why I should pay out more for more protection. I have not
got any other PC problems. Or is there something I am missing?

Other than that..any other suggestions?
 
bhafc87 said:
I have conducted a Norton Virus Scan and an Ad-aware scan (custom) of
my XP Home version PC. There are no viruses or ad-ware installed on
my PC, yet over the last few weeks my IE 6 just keeps crashing at
various times. I will be looking at a web page, then when i click
'back' or 'home' or another shortcut it goes white and looks like it
is trying to load a new page for example and it wont go any further.
When I go to log off it comes up with a grey box saying IE 6 has not
been closed properly and a progress bar appears and its says end now
or wait. So something is wrong. If it is not a virus or adware, what
is it? Any ideas anyone. (I do have SP2 by the way). Thanks
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Ad-Aware does not catch all malware. First eliminate any spyware.
What You Should Know About Spyware
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/devioussoftware.mspx

CAUTION!!!!! Removing some spyware can damage the Winsock stack and you may
not be able to connect to the Internet. Before you try to remove spyware,
download a copy of LSP-Fix - a free program to repair damaged Winsock 2
stacks (all Windows versions)
http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm
Winsockfix for W95, W98, ME, NT, 2000, XP
http://www.tacktech.com/pub/winsockfix/WinsockFix.zip
Directions here: http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=257
WinXP:
Get WinSockxpFix
http://www.spychecker.com/program/winsockxpfix.html
How to Reset Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/299357
In WinXP SP2: You can fix Winsock by going to Start | Run and typing
CMD
In the command window type
netsh winsock reset

See
Dealing with Unwanted Spyware and Parasites
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
Help with Hijackware
http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm
http://aumha.org/a/quickfix.htm
http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?t=5878
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/data/prevention.htm
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/data/tshoot.htm
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/Malware_Defence.htm
http://defendingyourmachine.blogspot.com

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE
Please respond in Newsgroup only. Do not send email
http://www.fjsmjs.com
Protect your PC
http://www.microsoft.com./athome/security/protect/default.aspx
http://defendingyourmachine.blogspot.com/
 
In Spybot are you using the Resident "TeaTime"? I was having a similar
problem as you and after checking step-by-step with various spyware programs
I ended by blocking the "ad-watch" in Ad-Aware AND "teatime" in Spybot. The
problem was fixed so one or the other was causing the problem. The only
problem was they were both active for a long time and for some unknown
reason this started about a month or so ago.

Frank
 
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