Can't visit hotmail.com and yahoo.com

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Jane

My internet explorer 6 sp1 can't visit yahoo.com and
hotmail.com. The outlook express can't send email to
mailbox in yahoo.com and hotmail.com
How wrong it the I.E.?
 
You should try reloading IE6 the latest ver. from the
MS site. Let it overwrite the ver. you got now. Because
I have the same problem of not being able to use
my Outlook Express Mail too. But you should be
able to open Yahoo & Hotmail sites. From all the
complaints posted about IE6 on this Newsgrp. Yahoo and
Hotmail don't seem to be affected. What's going on is
there are many website that are nolonger compatable w/
IE6. If you encounter a site like this, you need to
notify them about it.
 
Rule out parasites that can cause havoc with Yahoo and MSN

Dealing with Unwanted Spyware, Parasites, Toolbars and Search Engines
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm


If all your search engines report 404 errors then check this out:

Qhosts virus/trojan, ALERT!.

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.qhosts.html
http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100719.htm
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojqhosts1.html

Removal tools that have been used with success.
http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/CIS/Software_Services/virus/index.html
http://software.brown.edu/dist/w-cleanqhosts.html

Be sure that you install hotfix 828750 which fixes the exploit that this
virus uses:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/critical/828750/default.asp
 
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