ie6 not opening any geocities websites... help!

[joe E joe joe]

i don't know whats going on... everytime i try to open
geocities webpage, i get a blank screen or the screen
doesn't change when i click on the link or i get another
little box opening and stating ie cannot download from
the site. is it my ie acting up or my computer or the
website itself. i tried to open almost all the geocities
website and same thing happens all the time. tried to
contact microsoft and thats like hell and yahoo, same
thing. please anyone whos knows more about this HELP ME!

 

[H Leboeuf]

Problems with search engine?

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

Be sure that you install hotfix 828750 which fixes the exploit that this
virus uses:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/critical/828750/default.asp

 

[Crissy Llora and Sandy Battista]

I have this same problem. don't have qhost...installed the hotfix...cleared
cookies,cache...etc. run spybot. have a firewall. still no geocities sites.
was wondering if this might work: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=823386
.. any other suggestions? ie 6 has also been running very slowly...i have
since installed netscape and have no trouble accessing geocities sites and
am on a cable modem and the speed is noticably faster on netscape. this
seems to all have started after installing sp1...would it be worth trying to
unistall and reinstall ie 6? or just wait for another service pack???

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

I have this same problem. don't have qhost...installed the
hotfix...cleared cookies,cache...etc. run spybot. have a firewall.
still no geocities sites. was wondering if this might work:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=823386 . any other suggestions? ie
6 has also been running very slowly...i have since installed netscape
and have no trouble accessing geocities sites and am on a cable modem
and the speed is noticably faster on netscape. this seems to all have
started after installing sp1...would it be worth trying to unistall
and reinstall ie 6? or just wait for another service pack???

I don't think that article applies.
Try turning off your firewall as a test. Post back whether that helps.

 

[Crissy Llora and Sandy Battista]

No change running firewall or not. any other suggestions?

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

No change running firewall or not. any other suggestions?

I don't have a lot of confidence in this, but it's worth a try:
See
Dealing with Unwanted Spyware, Parasites, Toolbars and Search Engines
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm