Re: IE cannot find network

From: ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers)
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 23:22:24 GMT

Potentially, spyware, ad-ware or other electronic varmints are blocking the
normal use of IE, which still has more holes than genuine Emmenthaler cheese,
even after how many patches and updates? I suggest doing the usual
spyware/adware scans and using hijackthis to see what software is hooked into
IE... Ben Myers

On 19 Oct 2005 17:33:30 -0400, <ahall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>On one of my XP Pro machines Internet
>Explorer cannot connect to the internet.
>
>Firefox and all other net connections are
>working fine.
>
>I could not find anything odd in the
>configuration menus.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>I rarely use IE, but it is needed for a few
>sites.
>
>
>--
>Andrew Hall
>(Now reading Usenet in alt.sys.pc-clone.dell...)

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