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[Guest]

Hello everybody

I have serious problems with mit IE6: i can't reach any website!!! With an other browser on the same machine, i can, perfectly. The problem seems to be the following: when i type for e.g. google.at IE6 tries to open www.google.at.com
So it automatically adds a www. at the beginning and a .com oder .org at the end of the URL that I want to have. I already searched this forum, found something about CTRL and AutoComplete and I already have found the trick from Frank Saunders with entries in the registry (Use AutoCompletion and so on). I have tried everything, deleted history, all autofill firms, disabled AutoComplete completly, but nothing helped. I installed Adaware and Spybot, they found some things, but none, which had to do with my IE6 problem. I also can not download any virus-updates with LiveUpdate, because Liveupdate does not find the server, the same problem is with AntiVir. PCAnywhere cannnot connect to a computer anymore

The only solution, that I see at the moment is to reinstall Windows XP PRo. Reinstalling IE6 SP1 has not helped at all. Any suggestions

 

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----- Alexander wrote: ----

Hello everybody

I have serious problems with mit IE6: i can't reach any website!!! With an other browser on the same machine, i can, perfectly. The problem seems to be the following: when i type for e.g. google.at IE6 tries to open www.google.at.com
So it automatically adds a www. at the beginning and a .com oder .org at the end of the URL that I want to have. I already searched this forum, found something about CTRL and AutoComplete and I already have found the trick from Frank Saunders with entries in the registry (Use AutoCompletion and so on). I have tried everything, deleted history, all autofill firms, disabled AutoComplete completly, but nothing helped. I installed Adaware and Spybot, they found some things, but none, which had to do with my IE6 problem. I also can not download any virus-updates with LiveUpdate, because Liveupdate does not find the server, the same problem is with AntiVir. PCAnywhere cannnot connect to a computer anymore

The only solution, that I see at the moment is to reinstall Windows XP PRo. Reinstalling IE6 SP1 has not helped at all. Any suggestions

 

[*Vanguard*]

"Alexander" ([email protected]) said in

Hello everybody,

I have serious problems with mit IE6: i can't reach any website!!!
With an other browser on the same machine, i can, perfectly. The
problem seems to be the following: when i type for e.g. google.at IE6
tries to open www.google.at.com.
So it automatically adds a www. at the beginning and a .com oder .org
at the end of the URL that I want to have. I already searched this
forum, found something about CTRL and AutoComplete and I already have
found the trick from Frank Saunders with entries in the registry (Use
AutoCompletion and so on). I have tried everything, deleted history,
all autofill firms, disabled AutoComplete completly, but nothing
helped. I installed Adaware and Spybot, they found some things, but
none, which had to do with my IE6 problem. I also can not download
any virus-updates with LiveUpdate, because Liveupdate does not find
the server, the same problem is with AntiVir. PCAnywhere cannnot
connect to a computer anymore.

The only solution, that I see at the moment is to reinstall Windows
XP PRo. Reinstalling IE6 SP1 has not helped at all. Any suggestions?

After entering a partial URL (i.e., without the protocol prefix and with
no hostname specified, like the "google.at" you mention), are you
hitting Enter or Ctrl-Enter? Ctrl-Enter will prefix the "www" hostname
and postfix the "com" TLD (top-level domain).

 

[Guest]

@Vanguar
Thanks for your advice, this was not the problem. I have not hit the CTRL-key, the problem was, that HijackThi
(thanks to Arnold) found out, that Internet Access was broken due to an error in an .dll-File, which managed the DNS-tranlsation, as far as I understood it. The .dll-File has been installed with AntivVir Pro, this error has been reproducable
because after reinstalling that AntiVirus-Program the error with IE6 happened again. But I knew, how to fix it :-

@Arnol
Vielen Dank für Deine Hilfe, HijackThis hat das Problem gefunden (siehe Log im andren Forum) und das Problem auch gefixt. Wie oben schon steht, hat AntiVir Pro ein dll-File installiert, das das Problem verursacht hat, dieser Fehler ist auch reproduzierbar nochmal aufgetreten bei einer neuerlichen Installation. Mit HijackThis konnte ich den Fehler aber letztendlich auch beheben. Vielen Dank auf jeden Fall noch einmal, Dein Hinweis hat mir viel Zeit erspart. :-

Grüsse nach Holland
Alexande

----- *Vanguard* wrote: ----

"Alexander" ([email protected]) said i

Hello everybody
With an other browser on the same machine, i can, perfectly. Th
problem seems to be the following: when i type for e.g. google.at IE
tries to open www.google.at.com
So it automatically adds a www. at the beginning and a .com oder .or
at the end of the URL that I want to have. I already searched thi
forum, found something about CTRL and AutoComplete and I already hav
found the trick from Frank Saunders with entries in the registry (Us
AutoCompletion and so on). I have tried everything, deleted history
all autofill firms, disabled AutoComplete completly, but nothin
helped. I installed Adaware and Spybot, they found some things, bu
none, which had to do with my IE6 problem. I also can not downloa
any virus-updates with LiveUpdate, because Liveupdate does not fin
the server, the same problem is with AntiVir. PCAnywhere cannno
connect to a computer anymore
XP PRo. Reinstalling IE6 SP1 has not helped at all. Any suggestions

After entering a partial URL (i.e., without the protocol prefix and wit
no hostname specified, like the "google.at" you mention), are yo
hitting Enter or Ctrl-Enter? Ctrl-Enter will prefix the "www" hostnam
and postfix the "com" TLD (top-level domain)

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

it automatically adds a www. at the beginning and a .com oder .org

are you hitting Enter or Ctrl-Enter?

Don,

The fact that he mentioned .org as well as .com makes me think
that it could be a DNS problem. When others have made similar
complaints about both extra www. and .com wrapping an otherwise
valid site name I have suggested that they could try first doing an
nslookup or ping of the site they are having difficulty reaching.
The effect of that if done close enough to the real lookup done by IE
could be that the results of the previous lookup might still be cached
(especially in NTx with its dnscache but also if the name being looked up
was an alias which was not kept by the local DNS server).

The idea is that I think there may be a timeout associated with
the residual AutoScan implementation that is still present in IE
in order to support the Ctrl-Enter keyboard shortcut.
If you don't have a network connection (e.g. on an Dial-up connection
specify Never dial... and disallow the prompt) you can see AutoScan
at work.

I would have to retest to make sure but I think that AutoScan is dependent
on AutoSearch; so if this is the correct scenario he could change the symptom
by disabling AutoSearch (e.g. pick Do not search from the Address bar
in the Advanced tab). Who knows? maybe the hypothesised DNS timeout
would be longer with AutoSearch disabled (e.g. no timeout at all)
in which case the lookups might actually work then.


FYI

Robert Aldwinckle

 

[*Vanguard*]

"Robert Aldwinckle" said in news:[email protected]:

Don,

The fact that he mentioned .org as well as .com makes me think
that it could be a DNS problem. When others have made similar
complaints about both extra www. and .com wrapping an otherwise
valid site name I have suggested that they could try first doing an
nslookup or ping of the site they are having difficulty reaching.
The effect of that if done close enough to the real lookup done by IE
could be that the results of the previous lookup might still be cached
(especially in NTx with its dnscache but also if the name being
looked up was an alias which was not kept by the local DNS server).

The idea is that I think there may be a timeout associated with
the residual AutoScan implementation that is still present in IE
in order to support the Ctrl-Enter keyboard shortcut.
If you don't have a network connection (e.g. on an Dial-up connection
specify Never dial... and disallow the prompt) you can see AutoScan
at work.

I would have to retest to make sure but I think that AutoScan is
dependent on AutoSearch; so if this is the correct scenario he could
change the symptom by disabling AutoSearch (e.g. pick Do not search
from the Address bar
in the Advanced tab). Who knows? maybe the hypothesised DNS timeout
would be longer with AutoSearch disabled (e.g. no timeout at all)
in which case the lookups might actually work then.


FYI

Robert Aldwinckle

Wouldn't "ipconfig /flushdns" get rid of those locally cached DNS
entries so all further requests must be submitted and supplied by
whatever DNS server is used?

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

Wouldn't "ipconfig /flushdns" get rid of those locally cached DNS

entries so all further requests must be submitted and supplied by
whatever DNS server is used?

Yes, but in this case I was thinking that the dnscache could be an asset
so you wouldn't want to flush it. Also I could have clarified: using
nslookup would only have an effect (if any) on the local DNS server;
however, using ping could affect the dnscache.

BTW I just checked, google.at is not an alias (at least on my DNS)
so that rules out that possibility. OTOH mine shows as

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.at
Addresses: 216.239.57.104, 216.239.59.104, 216.239.39.104

Thinking about it some more this problem could easily be yet another
instance of spyware causing normal processes to go awry.
E.g. instead of a lookup for google.at spyware prefix could cause
a lookup to be done for a now non-existent domain or something which
does cause the delay I was hypothesising. All this speculation could
be answered definitively if only it was easy to do packet tracing.
In fact, in XP it is easy to do packet tracing with its netcap utility.


Robert