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| Thread ID: 58998 | 2005-06-18 11:43:00 | MS IE Problems | Agent_24 (57) | Press F1 |
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| 365011 | 2005-06-19 01:12:00 | Well Canon and Symantec are certainly not companies that would be wanting to infect people's PC's with viruses/spyware, and I've had those toolbars well over a year with no problems before. Tried that Crap Cleaner program out and deleted everything it could find which was about 745mb.. boot time has been reduced by over half :thumbs: I'll try a registry scan soon. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 365012 | 2005-06-19 02:48:00 | Well Canon and Symantec are certainly not companies that would be wanting to infect people's PC's with viruses/spyware, and I've had those toolbars well over a year with no problems before. Have they been updated (not virus def's, the toolbars and programmes). While those vendors may not infect you, their software can be exploited as a way in to your goodies. For eg, there was a major flaw exploited in Symantic software recently. Anthing that is attached to or allied to IE (and therefore Windows) is suspect, IMO. |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 365013 | 2005-06-19 02:59:00 | I usually check things like Windows update, norton, spybot, ad-aware and all other such programs and things just about every day for updates. Though I'll check the canon toolbar for any updated versions now. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 365014 | 2005-06-19 09:03:00 | Well Canon and Symantec are certainly not companies that would be wanting to infect people's PC's with viruses/spyware, and I've had those toolbars well over a year with no problems before. Who said anything about infections? We are talking about a broken browser aren't we? Is it far fetched to think that one of the apps running intergrated into the browser is behaving in a way that isn't as per design?,for whatever reason? remove the fluff and see if the issue is corrected.You not going to make any headway unless you start off with a clean slate.And everything is suspect, makes no difference if it was working a year ago, or if it comes from a reputable company. Though a norton install is as good as a virus infection anyhow. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 365015 | 2005-06-19 09:15:00 | remove the fluff Essential tool in computer efficiency......m :D |
mark c (247) | ||
| 365016 | 2005-06-19 09:21:00 | I have removed both toolbars but due to the intermittency of the problem I shall probably have to wait a bit to see if it pops up again. | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 365017 | 2005-06-19 23:01:00 | As far as having troubles with the browser goes, it's the 1st sign of a hijack when it acts up . There are very few areas that anti-spyware can oversee when you (the administrator?) ask something to install itself . As a precaution, I use and recommend that you try SpoofStick . The link is here: . corestreet . com/spoofstick/" target="_blank">www . corestreet . com SpoofStick is designed to tell you where you have gone when you clicked on that site that promised to send you $500 . 00 (US) for using their toothpaste . As a preventative measure, it DOES NOT work . . but as for telling you where you are when you arrive there, it works really well . There are 2 versions of SpoofStick; one for Internet Exploder, and the other for FireFox . Get them both . To use the one in IE, you have to allow third party extensions to run (a set-up default anyway), and FireFox's version has to be installed as an extension . (Drag SpoofStick for FireFox onto the Toolbar, not the URL line or the Tab Browser Bar . It takes a lot less space there) In case you are wondering: SpoofStick does not need internet access to report home . It cares not where you go, who you see, or what they're wearing at the time . It even runs on internal files and informs you (funny enough) that you are looking in your local files and delivers the IP address of your computer's file too! ;) from their post: SpoofStick contains no adware, spyware, nagware or other unhealthy additives . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 365018 | 2005-06-21 10:21:00 | Pressf1 can be quite useless when it comes to problems like this. All you get is the usual talk about scanning for spyware etc etc. The problem is that you DO have smart tags support for IE installed, you just don't know it. To remove smart tags go to this website (maybe with firefox :)) www.winsupersite.com scroll down to "Add/Remove optional features of Windows XP" follow the instructions and you smart tags support for IE should appear in the add/remove windows componants console. hope this fixes it :) |
imarubberducky (7230) | ||
| 365019 | 2005-06-21 12:29:00 | boot time has been reduced by over half :thumbs: . If you really want to improve your boot time, get rid of Norton & check out the AVG vs Avast thread . You would expect that with so much overhead, norton would be really good at picking up infections, but Avast, AVG & antivir all kick it's ass . Those are just the free ones . If you spend a bit of money, you can have something with more features than norton, with half the overhead . |
Greven (91) | ||
| 365020 | 2005-06-25 00:53:00 | While browsing PressF1 this morning my IE generated the same error message about MSHTML.DLL however the taskbar has not frozen (yet). | Agent_24 (57) | ||
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