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IE 6 cannot find server

Jun 15, 2004 4:50AM PDT

It started with IE trying to connect to www.incredifind.com and just freezing there trying to load the page. I deleted that incredifind (whatever that is) I removed suspicious start ups by RegCleaner. I don't think I have any spyware but will check. I downloaded the latest IE 6 and patch but still it says cannot find server. It's not checking for a proxy, I've looked into options.
My Netscape is ok. My broadband browser is ok. It's just IE and it's buddies like Avant Browser that isn't behaving.
Shall I go back to IE 5 or 5.5?

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Re: IE 6 cannot find server
Jun 15, 2004 5:04AM PDT
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Re: IE 6 cannot find server
Jun 19, 2004 6:09AM PDT

Many Thanks. Alot to do there. How do the masses get along? I ended up by going back in time using SecondChance (system restore) on my Win98. That did the trick. I've started the tricks that you directed me to. Hopefully things be safer now.

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Maintain ''surveillance''
Jun 19, 2004 10:59PM PDT
y'all....


Perspective -- just about every virus, trojan, or worm performs a certain degree of harm and it just depends on the severity whether you should correct it now or it's something you can live with:

1. Like an irritating squeak in your car which you don't know how to fix, you have the choice of paying the experts dearly for their training and guarantee or a shade-tree mechanic who may fix it for nothing since s/he has no formal education, but you get no guarantee.

2. You're simply not going to find a happy medium however where you have a real choice in dealing with these described intrusions where a single utility has yet been written by anybody that combine all the good things into one such program.

a. First, please read the article concerning "Unsolicited Commercial Software."

b. Second, perform as a minimum the first five items listed below.

Note: If you try using CWShredder, HijackThis, as well Spybot S&D, Ad-aware and several other anti-spyware utilities and a trojan is installed which prevents their running, download PepiMK's "CoolWWWSearch.SmartKiller" removal tool, uncompress the zip file and run the program.

3. Reply to our input that each and every one of the five were used and the result please if you require further input.

a. "Housecall."
b. 'Adaware."
c. "Spybot S&D."
d. "CWShredder" - 1 or "CWShredder" - 2.
e. "McAfee AVERTStinger."
f. "Hijack This" - 1 or "Hijack This" - 2.

Note: Posting a log concerning #f should only be at the direction of a forum moderator IMO.

6. Check this Web site, "Files used by Spyware" if interested.

7. All users of Outlook Express should ensure the system is set to show all file extensions. From Explorer/My Computer, click View, Folder Options, View and place a dot in the radio button for Show all files. If a check mark exist in the box for Hide file extension for known file types, remove it. Click the box near the top of the applet labeled Like Current Folder (Click to see an example screenshot), click Apply, and then click OK to Exit. The purpose is that a received e-mail message in OE may contain a file simply reflecting a filename with a .txt extension when in reality the file may have been named with multiple periods and could in fact be an executable file. E.g.: Virus.TXT.BAT, or anything else, to include a Program Information File (PIF) which is a real-mode executable. The file's extension shown without the setting, "Show all files", would simply reflect the name of a file which has multiple periods in the name, by simply displaying a name (the information preceding the first period), the extension following that first period up to a second period and then stop there. E.g.: Virus.txt

Note: If you are curious about the content of an attachment to an e-mail message try opening it in either NotePad or WordPad for reading. Opening something in a text/word process type program does not Run a file but they could fail to actually open it. NEVER-ever double-click an attach filename in any circumstances unless you or the system has already determined that it is virus free.

Bill Gaston

Pardon ma ACKsent, ah'm frum Austin, Tex_As, USA

....its been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway,' but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.