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[Guest]

I'm having trouble accessing many websites, i get a pop up saying: internet
explorer cannot open the internet site (www.........) operation aborted and
their is a button titled ok. when i click this it sends me to internet
optimiser web page. Any suggestions?

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

I'm having trouble accessing many websites, i get a pop up saying: internet
explorer cannot open the internet site (www.........) operation aborted and
their is a button titled ok. when i click this it sends me to internet
optimiser web page. Any suggestions?

Joanne,

your computer is probably infested with spyware. My first
recommendation would be to install and run SpyBot.

More information at http://www.michna.com/kb/wxnet.htm.

Hans-Georg

 

[Lance]

joanneb19 thought carefully and wrote on 10/11/2004 4:03 AM:

I'm having trouble accessing many websites, i get a pop up saying: internet
explorer cannot open the internet site (www.........) operation aborted and
their is a button titled ok. when i click this it sends me to internet
optimiser web page. Any suggestions?

You probably picked up some spyware/adware after installing some kind of
shopping/bargain finding toolbar or internet speed enhancer. They
hijacked your browser and are causing your problems.

First off, don't install anything from that Internet Optimizer website,
it'll make things worse.

Second, download, install, UPDATE and scan your computer using these two
spyware/adware removers. Delete everything they find:

Ad-Aware Free Edition:
www.lavasoftusa.com

Spybot Search and Destroy:
www.safer-networking.org

Third, keep Ad-Aware and Spybot updated and run scans every so often.

Also, check out your university's IT or Computing Center website. It
probably has lots of free software downloads and advice for this sort of
thing.

Lance
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