Alexa.com opens Localhost on winxp machine

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Jeremy Cade

Hi All,

When i try to open www.alexa.com it try's to open iis on
my local machine. Any suggestoins on how to fix this?

I've cleared my cache, history and cookies. Also cleaned
the registry on my machine. Still no luck.

Please Help.......

Regars,

Jeremy Cade
 
Jeremy Cade said:
Hi All,

When i try to open www.alexa.com it try's to open iis on
my local machine. Any suggestoins on how to fix this?

I've cleared my cache, history and cookies. Also cleaned
the registry on my machine. Still no luck.

Please Help.......

Regars,

Jeremy Cade
Click to expand...

http://www.imilly.com/alexa.htm

HTH

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Opinicus said:
That page talks about a "Show related links" option on the IE "Tools" menu.

I have no such option there...
(Using IE 6.0 with all updates in place.)
Click to expand...

You're lucky that is *not* available.
http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?lang=en&page=knowledgebase/threats/spybots-alexarelated
http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?lang=en&page=knowledgebase/threats/spybots-alexa


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Opinicus said:
I'm sure I am but I'm also curious as to why it should be missing...
Click to expand...

Alexa *is* a Browser "helper" that basically data-mines your Browser as you
surf - reporting all your activity to a third-party data-mining service.

http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty/jason.frand/teacher/technologies/palace/datamining.htm

Original URL, again, http://www.imilly.com/alexa.htm

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