Do you have a network running by any chance? I have the same problem
and it appears that IE6 is looking everywhere for the page including the
machine on the network. I haven't been able to fix it either and now
use Firefox as my default browser.
Cheers,
Larry
wizard154 wrote:
: Thanks. Tried everything didnt work. One piece of info I forgot to
: mention: Netscape and ALL other browsers like Firefox, work perfectly
: fine!
: And it stoped working AS SOON AS I installed SP2.
: Do u know why this problem is so special to IE 6.0?
:
: "Jon Kennedy" wrote:
:
: : Try this - go to Start...Programs...Accessories...Command prompt.
: : Type in "ipconfig /flushdns" (no quotes), hit Enter.
: :
: : If no joy, then contact your ISP to see if they are having any
: : problem with their DNS servers. I've run into this problem
: : intermittently, albeit rarely, with Road Runner sometimes. In
: : those instances, I temporarily switch to alternative DNS servers.
: :
: : If still no joy:
: :
: : This may be caused by spyware/malware that's gotten installed on
: : your system. Use Ad-Aware, MSAS and/or Spybot Search & Destroy to
: : remove it.
: :
: : Microsoft Anti-Spyware (beta)
: :
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx
: : Ad-Aware:
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
: : Spybot:
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
: : Good sites on how to install and use Spybot -
: :
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/tutorial/index.html
: :
http://tomcoyote.com/SPYBOT/index1.php
: :
: : Also download a winsock repair tool, to have just in case cleaning
: : up anything found breaks it -
: :
: : Winsock repair tools:
: : LSPFix- all versions of Windows
http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.zip
: : Winsock2 Fix- Win98, ME
: :
http://www.bu.edu/pcsc/internetaccess/winsock2fix.html
: : LavaSoft- all versions of Windows-
: :
http://digital-solutions.co.uk/lavasoft/whndnfix.zip
: :
: : More information here:
: :
http://www.spywareinfo.com/
: :
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/Darnit.html
: :
http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/ - runs a little script when
: : loading page to check for common parasites
: :
: : If no joy, in IE go to Tools...Internet Options...Advanced tab,
: : Browsing section, uncheck "Enable third-party browser extensions",
: : click Apply, click Okay, reboot. If that solves your problem, then
: : more troubleshooting is needed to find out exactly which program,
: : or Browser Helper Object (BHO) is causing this problem. You don't
: : want to leave it at that, as some BHOs are useful or necessary -
: : like Adobe Acrobat for reading .pdf files or an essential component
: : of Norton AV. Get BHODemon -
: :
http://www.definitivesolutions.com/bhodemon.htm - read all about
: : BHOs. Disable all items, and then gradually replace one or two at a
: : time to narrow down the culprit.
: :
: : Or if you have IE 6 SP-2 you can do this within the browser:
: : How to manage Internet Explorer add-ons in Windows XP Service Pack 2
: :
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;883256
: :
: : If all the above fails, then the problem could be something new
: : that the spyware cleaners above don't have in their databases yet.
: : In that case.... HijackThis direct download:
: :
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/files/hijackthis.zip
: : Tutorial on how to use HijackThis:
: :
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/htlogtutorial.html
: : Then post it's output log to the forum here for analysis and
: : feedback by the parasite experts:
: :
http://www.spywareinfo.com/forums/
: : Or the other HijackThis Logs forums listed here:
: :
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/forums.html
: :
: : Or try this program to get some of the most nasty malware:
: : CWShredder direct download:
: :
http://aumha.org/downloads/cwshredder.zip
: :
: : An alternate resource for all of this and more:
: :
http://www.aumha.org/secure.htm
: :
: : --
: :
: : Jon R. Kennedy
: : Charlotte, NC, USA
: : (e-mail address removed)
: :
: : : : : Hi. When I try to open any new page, it takes forever for IE 6 to
: : : look up a
: : : domain name. Eventually it resolves it, and I can surf fast
: : : within a particular domain. But when I want to switch to another
: : : one - its slow again.
: : : Example: 1st:
www.google.com - slow
: : : 2nd
www.google.com/smthing - fast
: : : 3rd
www.yahoo.com - slow
: : :
: : : Any suggestions how to resolve it?
: : : Jim
