'http' or not 'http' that is the question

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Ian James \(BSP\)

Hi,

Can anybody help...?

We have two machines... on one of them you can type

www.ba.com then [GO]

and you are taken to British Airways Website

on the other you type the same and are taken to an MSN search page which
suggests possible matches. However if you type:

http://www.ba.com then [GO]

It resolves the website address correctly.

I have compared the settings and cannot find any differences. Is there a
setting that allows addresses without the 'http://'

Both versions are Internet explorer 6. The working version on Win98 and the
broken version on winXP.

Incidentally this was working on the XP machine up until about a week ago,
and www.ba.com is just an example it happens with all website addresses...
Yes even www.microsoft.com...!

Any & All help appreciated

Thanks

Ian
 
Verify the following entries are correct in the Registry:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\URL\DefaultPre
fix]
@="http://"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\URL\Prefixes]
"ftp"="ftp://"
"gopher"="gopher://"
"home"="http://"
"mosaic"="http://"
"www"="http://"
--

Some parasites will cause havoc if you do not include http or www

IE 6.

Try this: Tools > Internet Options > Advanced > Browsing
Uncheck the Enable 3rd party browser extensions

If this clears your problem then find out who the culprit(s) is/are with
these tools.

Let AD-Aware Scan your system for advertising Spyware
http://www.lavasoftusa.com

or:

SpyBot-S&D
http://security.kolla.de/

p.s Reset the 3rd party browser setting.

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


Henri Leboeuf
Web page: http://www.generation.net/~hleboeuf/index.htm
 
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