wininet.dll problem

[Brooke O]

When starting IE 6.0 sp1 (or AOL AIM or sometimes McAfee
Services), the program will hang and not respond and I will
have to kill the service. When looking in the event log,
an application error is shown of Event ID 1000 and usually
the faulting module of wininet.dll. Usually after this
happens the first time, subsequent actions are very delayed
until I manually kill the offending service.

I have tried reinstalling IE and Win XP, defrag the disk,
gotten rid of Spyware, and have tried serching for answers
on MS site, but nothing seems to work. I believe the issue
has to do with wininet.dll and have tried downloading a new
version from the web, but it doesn't appear to correct problem.

Earlier Outlook wasn't working, but now I've gotten
everything to work except for IE and occasionally McAfee.

Any ideas?

 

[xe77]

Try this:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;243713&Product=ie

or Try:
"sfc /scannow" from the Start > Run... box.

 

[Brooke O]

I am working on Windows XP, this Q is written for IE 5.0
and Windows 95/98. That's why I hadn't gone beyond step 4
with this one.

I also already ran sfc /scannow a couple of days ago and no
files were shown as problematic.

 

[Brooke O]

SpyBot is exactly what I used. And it cleaned things up
very nicely - found that I had BackWeb Lite installed!

 

[S.Sengupta]

When starting IE 6.0 sp1 (or AOL AIM or sometimes McAfee
Services), the program will hang and not respond and I will
have to kill the service. When looking in the event log,
an application error is shown of Event ID 1000 and usually
the faulting module of wininet.dll. Usually after this
happens the first time, subsequent actions are very delayed
until I manually kill the offending service.

I have tried reinstalling IE and Win XP, defrag the disk,
gotten rid of Spyware, and have tried serching for answers
on MS site, but nothing seems to work. I believe the issue
has to do with wininet.dll and have tried downloading a new
version from the web, but it doesn't appear to correct problem.

Earlier Outlook wasn't working, but now I've gotten
everything to work except for IE and occasionally McAfee.

Any ideas?

Hi!
which spyware did you use?

Try downloading and running SpyBot
http://www.safer-networking.org/


with regards/
ssg/pronetworks.org