IE crash in XP

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Philip Martin

Hi, I wonder if someone can help out with this problem. I'm running XP home
and IE v6. Until the other day every thing was fine, then all of a sudden IE
is playing up. It loads fine to my home page and I can navigate around that
site no problems. I can also use the Favourites option to select a web site,
but if I type a URL into the address bar or, if I try to use the drop down
arrow of the address bar, it just frizzes up with the hour glass sitting on
the screen cursor. The only way to exit from this is the three finger
salute!

Anyone know what's gone wrong here?

TIA,

Philip Martin.
 
Philip Martin said:
Hi, I wonder if someone can help out with this problem. I'm running
XP home and IE v6. Until the other day every thing was fine, then all
of a sudden IE is playing up. It loads fine to my home page and I can
navigate around that site no problems. I can also use the Favourites
option to select a web site, but if I type a URL into the address bar
or, if I try to use the drop down arrow of the address bar, it just
frizzes up with the hour glass sitting on the screen cursor. The only
way to exit from this is the three finger salute!

Anyone know what's gone wrong here?

TIA,

Philip Martin.
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First eliminate any spyware.
What You Should Know About Spyware
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/devioussoftware.mspx

CAUTION!!!!! Before you try to remove spyware using any of these programs ,
download a copy of LSPFIX from any of the following sites:
http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm
http://www.spychecker.com/program/winsockxpfix.html
(if your OS is Win2k or XP) The process of removing certain malware may kill
your internet connection. If this should occur, this program, LSPFIX, will
enable you to regain your connection.

See
Dealing with Unwanted Malware, Parasites, Toolbars and Search Engines
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

Note that AdAware and SpyBot S & D will each catch some things the other
won't. Also, each needs to be updated with the program's update function
before every use, even when just downloaded. There's also a lot more to do
than just those two programs. CWShredder is also available here:
http://www.intermute.com/products/cwshredder
**Post your HijackThis log to
http://www.spywareinfo.com/forums/
http://forums.tomcoyote.org/
http://castlecops.com/forum67.html
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/ or the Spyware forum at
http://forum.aumha.org/viewforum.php?f=30 for expert analysis, not here.**
Alternative download pages for Ad-Aware, Spybot, HijackThis and CWShredder
may be found on this page:
http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm.

See this link for information about malware:
http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/malware.ars

If nothing there helps, please post back to this thread.

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