IE help

[blue]

I wonder if someone can help.
I am using IE 6.0 and recently, without doing anything different to
my settings,I get the following message box when I close IE and wait for
just a minute or two then try open IE again to go to a web site):

Work offline
No connections to the internet is currently available. To view internet
content that has been saved on your computer, click work offline.
[work offline] [try again]

I have never worked offline and, before now, never have checked "work
offline". I have tried every setting I can find to try and make IE stay
connected, but nothing works.

The only thing I can imagine that I did to change IE from the way things
were before these messages started coming was download a security up
date for Windows but, I am almost sure that was a week or two before
this started happening.

I also made one other change, updating my Norton Antivirus. But the
above message continues to come up when I disable Norton and when I
disable my Zone Alarm too (both of which worked perfectly fine with IE
for years before).
I can't figure out what's happening. I would appreciate any suggestions.
Thanks,
Fred

 

[roger]

Hi Fred,

[...]

I also made one other change, updating my Norton Antivirus. But the
above message continues to come up when I disable Norton and when I
disable my Zone Alarm too (both of which worked perfectly fine with IE
for years before).
I can't figure out what's happening. I would appreciate any suggestions.
Thanks,
Fred

Have you tried going to IE > Tools > Internet Options > connection and
checking 'dial always the default connection.'?

Good luck

 

[blue]

Thanks Roger,
I am on cable, but I did check that the options were set correctly.
Fred

Hi Fred,

[...]

I also made one other change, updating my Norton Antivirus. But the
above message continues to come up when I disable Norton and when I
disable my Zone Alarm too (both of which worked perfectly fine with IE
for years before).
I can't figure out what's happening. I would appreciate any suggestions.
Thanks,
Fred

Have you tried going to IE > Tools > Internet Options > connection and
checking 'dial always the default connection.'?

Good luck

 

[roger]

Hi Fred,

If your settings are right, then let's try to look for malware which
might have affected IE. You might perform a scan looking for spyware
using updated ad-aware and spybot:
Ad-aware
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/

Spybot S&D
http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?lang=en&page=download


You can also use BHODemon, to know which Browser Helper objects you
have:
http://www.definitivesolutions.com/bhodemon.htm

Good luck

Thanks Roger,
I am on cable, but I did check that the options were set correctly.
Fred

Hi Fred,

[...]

I also made one other change, updating my Norton Antivirus. But the
above message continues to come up when I disable Norton and when I
disable my Zone Alarm too (both of which worked perfectly fine with IE
for years before).
I can't figure out what's happening. I would appreciate any suggestions.
Thanks,
Fred

Have you tried going to IE > Tools > Internet Options > connection and
checking 'dial always the default connection.'?

Good luck