Odd ".com.com" nonsense in IE or is it?

[David R.]

This appears to be the closest to a current IE discussion group. If I am
wrong, please let me know where that may be! I've recently been randomly
getting a www.domain.com.com in the address bar while trying to reach well
know sites. For instance, tonight it is happening with www.news.com. I
type news.com into the address bar and it takes me to the page but the
address changes to www.news.com.com in the address bar. At times, the site
that shows up is either a different one, or like tonight an older version of
the same site (from Sept 19, 2003 at news.com tonight).

What makes this even more odd, a friend of mine 6000 miles away checked for
me and had the same exprerience tonight, which either means teh bug is very
wide spread or it's Internet based. The only thing I could find while
googling for an answer is urls that had been indexed by Google the very same
way, ie. news.com.com, zdnet.com.com, download.com.com, etc. Check for
yourself http://tinyurl.com/tv9s.

Does anyone know what this is? If I missed somethign obvious, then I really
missed it. I've been searching all over. Thanks!

David

 

[Malke]

This appears to be the closest to a current IE discussion group. If I
am
wrong, please let me know where that may be! I've recently been
randomly getting a www.domain.com.com in the address bar while trying
to reach well
know sites. For instance, tonight it is happening with www.news.com.
I type news.com into the address bar and it takes me to the page but
the
address changes to www.news.com.com in the address bar. At times, the
site that shows up is either a different one, or like tonight an older
version of the same site (from Sept 19, 2003 at news.com tonight).

What makes this even more odd, a friend of mine 6000 miles away
checked for me and had the same exprerience tonight, which either
means teh bug is very
wide spread or it's Internet based. The only thing I could find while
googling for an answer is urls that had been indexed by Google the
very same
way, ie. news.com.com, zdnet.com.com, download.com.com, etc. Check
for yourself http://tinyurl.com/tv9s.

This is not a "discussion group" - it is a newsgroup for the XP
operating system. Google for "Usenet" to learn about newsgroups. Here
is a link to a list of Microsoft newsgroups:
http://aumha.org/nntp.htm

What does a scan with a current antivirus program (meaning a version not
later than 2002 and using updated virus definitions) show? Also, remove
spyware with Spybot Search & Destroy from www. security.kolla.de and
Ad-aware from www.lavasoftusa.com.

Malke