IE6 Freeze

[Dimitrios Paskoudniakis]

Lately my IE6 for XP SP2 is frequently freezing up. I have to close the
program and reopen frequently.

All other programs open are fine.

What should I do?

 

[Guest]

Lately my IE6 for XP SP2 is frequently freezing up. I have to close the
program and reopen frequently.

All other programs open are fine.

What should I do?

I am having the same problem. To close the program I have to <ctl><alt><del>.

 

[Guest]

I am having same problem. I have done all suggested fixes in the error
reporting and nothing works.

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM]

Lately my IE6 for XP SP2 is frequently freezing up. I have to close the
program and reopen frequently.

All other programs open are fine.

What should I do?

What are you doing when this happens?
It could be a malware infection.

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM]

Lately my IE6 for XP SP2 is frequently freezing up. I have to close the
program and reopen frequently.

All other programs open are fine.

What should I do?

Oops! Meant to include this:

So How Did I Get Infected Anyway?
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=27971

Help with Hijackware
All MS - MVP Sites.
http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm
(http://aumha.org/a/quickfix.htm)
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Removing_Malware
(http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm)
(http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/darnit.html)
(http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/Malware_Defence.htm)

Unexplained computer behavior may be caused by deceptive software.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/827315

 

[Neil]

I am having the same problem as these folks. It started today, and I have done a system restore to a week ago. I am still having the problems. I have done both a spyware (Defender) and virus (McAfee) scan and nothing has been identified. Any help would be appreciated

 

[Guest]

Also having the same problem and can't figure out what else to do. I just
realized that Netscape seems to work just fine, but... still nothing working
for more than a few minutes with internet explorer 6...

 

[Neil]

I think I discovered the issue: Comcast Toolbar. I don't understand why the
issue came up all of a sudden, since I have had the toolbar installed for
more than a month. Since I uninstalled the toolbar, the problem has
disappeared.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the answer, I had the same problem all day..

 

[Dimitrios Paskoudniakis]

Thanks for the answer, I had the same problem all day..

Beautiful. I have Comcast. Problem solved. Thanks!

 

[Guest]

I don't have Comcast. And I have run adware and virus programs and came up
clean also.

 

[Daave]

Do you have any other toolbars? My colleague had the same problem.
Uninstalling the UPromise toolbar did the trick.

 

[Guest]

No I don't have UPromise either, have Verizon/Yahoo tool bar. In the
possible fixes on the error reporting page was the suggestion to update the
Yahoo toolbar as there was a fix for it, I did that along with the other
suggestions in the error reporting page But no help yet. I have had no
problems for 8 months with this set-up and now all the sudden I am freezing
up constanly.

 

[Daave]

Just for yucks, did you try uninstalling the Verizon/Yahoo tool bar?