Iexplorer Error.."Failed to get data..."

[Ray Brown]

When starting internet explorer a window appears with a
RED X with iexplore in the upper left hand corner,
stating "Failed to get data for ' " and when "OK" is
clicked it askes to send a error report and then closes.
This occures everytime you attempt to start internet
explore or Windows explore and sometimes when Control
Panel is entered. Have tried uninstalling Internet
explorer and reinstalling but it did not correct the
problem. This is running on Windows XP Professional with
Office 2000 Professional and ALL Microsoft updates for
WIndows and Office.

Any information that you can share to assist in resolving
this issue is greatly appreciated.

 

[Malke]

When starting internet explorer a window appears with a
RED X with iexplore in the upper left hand corner,
stating "Failed to get data for ' " and when "OK" is
clicked it askes to send a error report and then closes.
This occures everytime you attempt to start internet
explore or Windows explore and sometimes when Control
Panel is entered. Have tried uninstalling Internet
explorer and reinstalling but it did not correct the
problem. This is running on Windows XP Professional with
Office 2000 Professional and ALL Microsoft updates for
WIndows and Office.

It sounds like you may have spyware looking to download ads. Remove
spyware with Spybot Search & Destroy from www.security.kolla.de and
Ad-aware from www.lavasoftusa.com. Be sure to update these programs
before running them. It is best to run antivirus and spyware removal
tools in Safe Mode. You *do* have a current (post-2002 version using
updated definitions) antivirus program, don't you?

Malke