IE6 - Ebay Weird text in pages ... Please help!

[srg]

Dear Group,

Recently pages from ebay have been returning if weird text please see
snippet below.
Does anyone have any idea on how to resolve this?
Is it some kind of spyware / hijack attempt?
It only seems to be happening with ebay.
I have sent a message to ebay and they have been no help what so ever.....
TIA
Steve

The whole page consists of text like the snippet below:-

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[Don Varnau]

Hi,
This is a problem peculiar to NTL (and family) that's been going on for a
couple of months.

A thread regarding NTL
http://forums.ntlhell.co.uk/lofiversion/index.php/t2811.html

Also see this thread
http://forums.ebay.co.uk/thread.jspa?threadID=200264413&start=443

And http://forums.ebay.co.uk/thread.jspa?messageID=208065333&

Also see http://forums.ebay.co.uk/thread.jspa?threadID=200264413&start=160
Look for the post by apachejon

Enough customers have had this problem that it might be worth your time to
contact NTL help.

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

Hi,
This is a problem peculiar to NTL (and family) that's been going on for a
couple of months.

A thread regarding NTL
http://forums.ntlhell.co.uk/lofiversion/index.php/t2811.html

404 for the thing ebay points to for "properly configured proxy settings":

http://www.chetnet.co.uk/portal/forum/viewtopic.php?t=641

Also see this thread
http://forums.ebay.co.uk/thread.jspa?threadID=200264413&start=443

Plausible explanation by Lancashire-Lad
makes later suggestion (by burtoboots) to use Ctrl-F5 seem appropriate.


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[Don Varnau]

Plausible explanation by Lancashire-Lad
makes later suggestion (by burtoboots) to use Ctrl-F5 seem

appropriate.

Thanks. Good points. My answer should probably be distilled down to:
1. Try a forced refresh (Ctrl+F5 or Ctrl+Refresh)
2. Contact NTLWorld. They've heard of the problem. Ask about alternate proxy
servers.

Don