badurl.grandstreetinteractive.com - error

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Tayesset 110

Have a WINMe PC that used to work great. Since a few weeks
ago, have had problems connecting to the web. Upon a close
look, I see the following error being written at the
bottom of my screen, in a fast-repeating blinking action:
"badurl.grandstreetinteractive.com". What happens is, IE
is attempting to connect to the Home Page and is
repeatedly being denied. I have tried manually-inserted
addresses in the address bar, all valid addresses, to no
avail. Upon researching, found-out that
GrandStreetInteractive is a company whose product is
checking for valid addresses. I don't know how that
product came into my WINMe PC. I don't see any such
program in thenAdd/Remove programs. But it prevents me
from connecting to the web and frequently causes IE to
freeze. I then have to do a hard boot to recover WINMe. So
now, I cannot connect to the world because of that error.
Any help would be appreciated.
 
Thanks to Msoft Support + $35, I have resolved this
problem. My MS Support person first asked me to PING
various areas of the web using COMMAND.com (DOS). All
PINGs were successful, meaning that IP connectivity to the
world existed and was successful. Based on that, we looked
into all the programs that existed (ADD/REMOVE Progs) and
found that various progs existed that I didn't use or
needed. We removed all that were no longer needed but we
still would incur the "badurl.granstreetinteractive.com"
errors. It looked to him like I was being Hijacked by some
prog since my IP Conn to the world was fine. What
triggered his suspicion was the blinking of that error at
the bottom of my screen, as if every blink was an attempt
by my browser to open the web Home page but it would be
refused as an invalid address by a company called
"Grandstreet.com" (they are on the web). We didn't know
what business that company had to be in my PC! Suspecting
a Hijacking, my MS Support person asked me to go to
another PC and logon to a site address
of "www.aaw6.notlong.com" and DLL from there an anti-
hijacking software called "Ad-Aware". I then ran this Ad-
Aware utility on the affected PC and it (the utility)
identified numerous routines, programs and cookies that
were not supposed to be there. The Help function of
that "Ad-Aware" utility (on its web) has a great
explanation about invasions by unknown progs. It
identified every questionable routine, program and cookie
as a "Hijacker" or otherwise "bad" element, and offered
the possibility of either quarantining them or DEL them. I
chose to just quarantine for the moment. After a Restart,
my PC flew at DSL speeds! Suggest you people try it too,
whoever suspects a Hijacking like I had. It cost me $35 to
get my PC to fly solid...It's free for y'all!
 
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