My thoughts on the IE problems

[D. Kearn]

Not to start a flame war here, but....

I personally find it very strange that within the last two
days, quite a few people have experienced the EXACT same IE
problem without installing any new software which leads me
to this conclusion:

Either there has been some malicious HTML code injected
into some popular websites, or some sort of new worm that
we don't know about yet. I personally run Mozilla, however
4 of our users here at the office have had the problems
from yesterday and today, IE just crashes and will not run
with modname ntdll.dll being the culprit.

We are up to date on our security patches, have Symantec's
client firewall and anti-virus enterprise version with
virus defs being updated daily. Group policy on our windows
2000 server dictates that NO user except from IS can
install software, administrator password is changed daily
using "strong" passwords, adaware and spybot run on the
local workstations.

Yep, we are locked down like Alcatraz....

If anyone can tell me otherwise, I would love to hear it
but I think (Just an opinion...) this might be related to
the source code leak. It's just too coincidental...

 

[Dave Fluker]

Hi,

I had this exact same problem yesterday and found the posts here helpful in
fixing it. I disabled the third party extensions and used Spyware to remove
a file called winshow or windshow.dll which was the culprit.

Regarding your thoughts, I think I know how I got the problem. A few weeks
or so back I visited a message board and, after that visit, noticed that my
IE 6 would put links on a web page for certain keywords with the link saying
"http://go.to/subject word

I have been trying to isolate where that came from and I believe it is
related to this problem, at least in my case.

Dave