Spyware has left IE6 disabled, while Firefox works fine!

[oops!!]

Philip,

I would suggest googling for winsock and winsock fix, this will bring you numerous hits and you will easily understand the problem and the cure.

Interesting starting points:

http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/tutorial59.html
http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm
http://www.compu-docs.com/winsock9x.htm

Zee

 

[Philip Herlihy]

Excellent - thanks again!

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Philip,

I would suggest googling for winsock and winsock fix, this will bring you
numerous hits and you will easily understand the problem and the cure.

Interesting starting points:

http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/tutorial59.html
http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm
http://www.compu-docs.com/winsock9x.htm

Zee

 

[geoffatmhg]

I have exactly the same problem except for me winsockfix didnt do the
business. See my post " I am completely baffled". Feb 3rd.

Ant thoughts would be appreciated.

TIA

Geoff

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP IE/OE]

I have exactly the same problem except for me winsockfix didnt do the
business. See my post " I am completely baffled". Feb 3rd.

Ant thoughts would be appreciated.

TIA

Geoff

Since you're using WinXP SP2, go to Start | Run and type
netsh winsock reset

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[geoffatmhg]

Tried that but sadly it wont work.

Is there a safe way to uninstall & re-install IE6?

thanks

Geoff

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP IE/OE]

Tried that but sadly it wont work.

Is there a safe way to uninstall & re-install IE6?

thanks

Geoff

You can't uninstall IE.
Uninstall SP2 and reinstall that.

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[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP IE/OE]

You can't uninstall IE.
Uninstall SP2 and reinstall that.

Do the reinstall with your anti-virus turned off.

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[Carey Holzman]

Download and run HiJackThis from
http://www.spychecker.com/program/hijackthis.html

Copy and paste the results of the scan into the HiJackThis on-line analyzer
at:
http://www.hijackthis.de/

And remove items it recommends.

Carey

 

[geoffatmhg]

Cant do that as my OS = Win XP comes with SP 2 installed!

Geoff

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP IE/OE]

One of the earlier methods here should work:
How to Reinstall or Repair Internet Explorer and Outlook Express in Windows
XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=318378
Make sure your anti-virus is turned off.

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[Robert Aldwinckle]

I have exactly the same problem except for me winsockfix didnt do the business. See my post " I am completely baffled". Feb 3rd.

Ant thoughts would be appreciated.

It may help to post a link to it? <eg>


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[MowGreen [MVP]]

That site can get less knowledgeable users into trouble. Best to post
the issue to a reputable spyware forum. Read the guidelines of the one
you choose prior to posting the Hijack This log :


http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/forum22.html
http://forums.net-integration.net/index.php?showforum=32
http://forum.aumha.org/viewforum.php?f=30
http://spywarewarrior.com/viewforum.php?f=2&sid=3ce3e4c9a40b25268d1bac3189d22184
http://computercops.biz/forum67.html

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[Lester Stiefel]

It may help to post a link to it? <eg>

I only keep IE as the MS update tool. But to answer the
question, I use Ad-Aware and Spybot to remove or disable any
spyware/hijackers. Specifically Gain/Gator. An alternate
approach is to find out what Spyware these detect, and then
specifically deny these access in your firewall - This works
for GAIN. Others will need to be disabled in startup, then
removed from system or registry database (very messy).

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

It may help to post a link to it? <eg>

My comment was almost too cryptic for me <g>

In case the "baffled" post had propagated to Google Groups
in the meantime I repeated a search for it today and still found
only this thread:

http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?q=author:[email protected]+OR+geoffatmhg++baffled

(Google Groups search for
author:[email protected] OR geoffatmhg baffled
)

So, either this poster used yet another alias to post in some unknown
thread of "baffled" posts or he didn't use that word in the post he was
asking us to refer to or his posting was a figment of his imagination!
Etc.


Does anyone think this could this be "Jason Sobol" getting confused
about his "wheel spin" problem?

http://groups-beta.google.com/group...005&as_maxd=3&as_maxm=2&as_maxy=2005&safe=off

(Google Groups search for
insubject:baffled
Exact Date:2005-02-03
)


<eg>


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