IE Not Sending Input Information

[Vaughan Butler]

So cannot log on to sites, enter search info, etc.

Any help gratefully received.

Regards

 

[Herman]

Confirm that IE has this problem when accessing sites that
use SSL protocol. In my case you can make it work by
clicking on the refresh icon and then on the retry button
if you were performing a POST (may require more than one
attempt.) My tests have narrowed problem down to a
keyboard buffer/program/status/... issue within IE; other
IE users of my website are also encountering this problem.
This is not an issue when using other browsers to same
site. Looking for a work-around other than procedure
described above! Did not find any KB articles that helped
with this.

 

[Vaughan Butler]

Hi Herman

Thanks for your thoughts, but it's more general than that. Tried
reinstalling latest IE SP1 cumulative security patch, since this
replaces a lot of system dlls, but still no change. No idea what else
to try now!!

Vaughan

 

[H Leboeuf]

Not quite sure if you have a search engine problem or you cannot get to
sites with good URLs.

Unable to use any major Search Engines?
Qhosts virus/trojan, ALERT!.

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.qhosts.html

http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100719.htm

http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojqhosts1.html

Removal tools that have been used with success.
http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/CIS/Software_Services/virus/index.html
http://software.brown.edu/dist/w-cleanqhosts.html

To protect against an other attack, be sure to install hotfix 828750 which
fixes the exploit that this virus uses.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/critical/828750/default.asp
--


Rule out parasites.
IE 6.

Try this: Tools > Internet Options > Advanced > Browsing
Uncheck the Enable 3rd party browser extensions

If this clears your problem then find out who the culprit(s) is/are with
these tools.

Let AD-Aware Scan your system for advertising Spyware
http://www.lavasoftusa.com

and:

SpyBot-S&D
http://security.kolla.de/

p.s Reset the 3rd party browser setting.

More: This may be caused by a third-party program (adware, spyware,
parasite).
Get AdAware and SpyBot and run them both. Keep them up to date.
Dealing with Unwanted Spyware, Parasites, Toolbars and Search Engines
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm


Henri Leboeuf
Web page: http://www.generation.net/~hleboeuf/index.htm

 

[Vaughan Butler]

Nothing like that I think. Another machine is perfectly normal, and the
affected one can follow links around to anywhere you like. What it
can't do is send any information to say a site for login, or to a search
engine. I believe this is handled by html INPUT form? So it is this
functionality that is affected.

Regards


Vaughan

 

[Herman]

Do any of the KB articles listed under IE6 --> POST
describe your problem? HTML INPUT forms are usually handled
by POSTs. My problem is losing the posted data but still
reaching the site! Seems like the Q832894 security patch is
a major source of other problems. If a machine did not get
that patch it would not show this problem.

 

[Guest]

We can confirm the same problem on our site http://www.dischivolanti.ch/ where sometimes the session info, which is kept as a part of forms data, gets corrupted. These problems were all reported only after the Internet Explorer Security update of February 2.