IE 6 Starts very slow

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John Jakus

I have a user who's Internet Explorer 6 SP1 takes about 15 seconds to load.
He is running with all the latest patches for Windows 2K and IE6.

I did some troubleshooting and found the following:

Everytime I start a new browser session, I run netstat and the machine is
always making a connection to some Northern Ireland Escort Service Website
on port 80. The browser never opens the page in the session so I imaging
they are just trying to increase their hits. I can't find anywhere that this
is called from. Where would spyware or links be put to tell IE to
automatically hit them. I have cleaned up all cookies and temp files. I
can't find anything.

Any information would be appreciated.

Thank You,

John Jakus
 
Goto Lavasoft's site and use their Ad-Aware software or try the other called
Search 'N Destroy

Tell him not to be surfing for porn cause all those sites are NOTORIOUS for
spam / popups / crap all around

Have you checked his home page setting and made sure it's supposed to open
to a site like www.google.com?

Did he d/l anything from a porn site or any 'utilities' to optimize his
system? If there is any software that he DOES NOT need, try uninstalling
them to see what may happen. He will just have to reinstall it again. Boo
Hoo

and lastly, SCOLD him for surfing for porn

If he claims he doesn't, I would love to have 5 minutes to pull up his
ENTIRE history and show him where he was. Yea, you deleted his history but
the history doesn't stop there!
 
Already tried Ad-Aware before I posted. I was going to try search and
destroy but haven't gotten to it yet.

I'll report back.

Thanks,

John
 
OK, Tried Ad-aware and Sybot Search and Destroy. They found nothing. The
problem still occurs. I even copied host IE directory to the server then
copied over mine and the problem did not follow. There has at be a registry
key somewhere that this thing is using to hook into IE.

I downloaded and tried Mozilla Firebird (very nice by the way) and the
problem was not evident with that. The user will continue to use Firebird
until we find the solution.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks,

John Jakus
 
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