IE Mysteriously Switches to "Work Offline"

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PT

When I open certain websites, three things happen:

1. The DSL internet connection is cut off
2. The menu bar File shows me that I'm working off-line
3. The sign-in dialog box for MSN opens

But I haven't used MSN for a year now. It's not my ISP.

What's going on?
 
I spent some time on the afflicted computer with MSN. They tried various
steps, none of which worked. The step that worked involved renaming a group
of host files as "oldhost" Most were just the MS sample files with no data,
but one had some old entries.

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PT
IE Tools>Internet Options>Connections> "Never dial a connection" (check
this)

The above should stop the MSN dialogue (you uninstalled MSN [whatever],
right?) but a hijacker may be causing the "offline" problem:
 
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