IE 6 Won't Open

[John]

I have Internet Explorer 6 and since yesterday(1/17/04)
have been unable to open it. I keep getting "Microsoft has
encountered a problem and needs to close". I am running on
Windows 98, using Netgear wireless router on Earthlink
modem. I have tried Ad-aware 6.0, Spybot-Search&Destroy,
and Avast Antivirus. I found Alexa and Aornum bugs and
removed them. I removed IE 6, loaded Netscape 7, then
downloaded IE6 again. I tried opening and got the same
message above. I just noticed my clock had wrong date &
time, I corrected that, restarted, same thing. Any Ideas??

 

[DVarnau]

John,
From Internet Options, uncheck "Enable third party browser extensions." If
that helps, there's probably still malware of some type that you haven't
found.
Since Ad-aware and Spybot failed, try CWShredder from
http://www.merijn.org/downloads.html
If that fails, go to HijackThis Quick Start http://www.tomcoyote.org/hjt/
Read the instructions, run HijackThis and post a log to the forum at
spywareinfo.com

Also, repairing IE might help.
194177 - Description of the Internet Explorer Repair Tool:
ttp://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;194177
318378 - How to Reinstall or Repair Internet Explorer in Windows XP:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q318378

Hope this helps,
Don