My wife can't use the internet

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El Marko

Over the past several months our IE6 performance has degraded from
tolerablew to crappy.

First, we lost the ability to search from within the location bar. If we
type in a subject, we get a "Page Cannot Be Found" error. So we search from
the search button.

Now, when we are at certain pages, many linked pages will do the same thing
from within a site.

Adaware, Spybot, and Symantec are all up to date and all three say we're
clean as a whistle!

Should I reinstall IE6? CAN that be done? Would it help?

mm
 
Go to tools> internet options>settings
This is how many megabytes you allow for temp files. I
bet it is huge, especially since it defaults to a
percentage of the drive. Knock it to 20 or 30( with the
average temp file 15k it is still thousands of files.
also delete all offline content and clean it up.
make sure you are on the latest service pack.
 
El Marko said:
Over the past several months our IE6 performance has degraded from
tolerablew to crappy.

First, we lost the ability to search from within the location bar. If
we type in a subject, we get a "Page Cannot Be Found" error. So we
search from the search button.

Now, when we are at certain pages, many linked pages will do the same
thing from within a site.

Adaware, Spybot, and Symantec are all up to date and all three say
we're clean as a whistle!

Should I reinstall IE6? CAN that be done? Would it help?

mm
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First eliminate any scumware.
See
Dealing with Unwanted Malware, Parasites, Toolbars and Search Engines
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

Note that AdAware and SpyBot S & D will each catch some things the other
won't. Also, each needs to be updated with the program's update function
before every use, even when just downloaded. There's also a lot more to do
than just those two programs. CWShredder is also available here:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/cwshredder.zip
**Post your HijackThis log to
http://forums.spywareinfo.com/ or the Spyware forum at
http://forum.aumha.org/ for expert analysis, not here.**
Alternative download pages for Ad-Aware, Spybot, HijackThis and CWShredder
may be found on this page:
http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm.
If trying everything at that site does not fix the problem please post back
in the same thread.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE
Please respond in Newsgroup. Do not send email
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Protect your PC
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/
 
 
Try this: Tools > Internet Options > Advanced > Browsing
Uncheck the Enable 3rd party browser extensions

If this clears your problem then find out who the culprit(s) is/are with
these tools.

Let AD-Aware Scan your system for advertising Spyware
http://www.lavasoftusa.com

and:

SpyBot-S&D
http://security.kolla.de/

p.s Reset the 3rd party browser setting.

More: This may be caused by a third-party program (adware, spyware,
parasite).
Get AdAware and SpyBot and run them both. Keep them up to date.
Dealing with Unwanted Spyware, Parasites, Toolbars and Search Engines
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

Additional link:
http://aumha.org/a/quickfix.htm

--

This nasty parasite may also be the cause. Get the removal tool.

CoolWebSearch - CWS http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/cws/
More: Complete list by variant with up-to-date information.
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/cwschronicles.html
More: Removal tool: http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/cwshredder.zip
More: Removal tool:
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/vbs.bootconf.html


Henri Leboeuf
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