IE6 browsing to wrong URL

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Gary Fritz

I've had this problem happen on NT and on two installations of Win2000,
using both IE5 and IE6: Sometimes, unpredictably, my browser will go to
the wrong URL. I click on a link to site X and it goes to Y, which is
usually a site I've visited recently. Try hitting reload a few times and
it eventually goes to the right place.

I did some archive-searching and found many references to the same problem.
I did all the stuff recommended in
http://groups.google.com/[email protected]
..gbl
....; I've had a few cases of apparent malware, because I've had one or two
cases where URLs got hijacked to a specific site, and Spybot fixed that. I
don't see anything wrong in the HijackThis! log.

But even after fixing that, I still get the occasional seemingly-random
browse problem. Often I get errors indicating the browser is trying to
load www.SiteY.com/some/url instead of www.siteX.com/some/url. Sometimes
the main web page loads correctly but pictures or frames within it fail.

I tried the history-cleaning steps recommended by Kyle Cui in
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=caMXLN3wCHA.1796@cpmsftngxa08
but that didn't help.

This is making my browser almost unusable at times. In desperation I've
already reinstalled my OS to fix this once, but the problem reappeared
after just a few months. Help!!

Thanks,
Gary
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Gary Fritz said:
I've had this problem happen on NT and on two installations of
Win2000, using both IE5 and IE6: Sometimes, unpredictably, my browser
will go to the wrong URL. I click on a link to site X and it goes to
Y, which is usually a site I've visited recently. Try hitting reload
a few times and it eventually goes to the right place.
Click to expand...

No reply in 5 days. Anyone? I would *really* like to find a solution for
this, and I've tried everything I could find.

Gary
 
I get a symptom like that occasionally when my proxy is active.
It usually happens on sites that use ASPX such as microsoft
and Google. Usually what I do is disable my proxy and everything
works fine; however, I suspect that dropping the link (thus closing
all active connections) might work for a while longer too.

Another symptom I have from sites which apparently are incompatible
with my proxy is that they refuse to show me their ads. (I get Red-X
in place of the ads.)
 
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Robert Aldwinckle said:
I get a symptom like that occasionally when my proxy is active.
Click to expand...

Do you mean the proxy server set in Tools -> Internet Options ->
Connections -> LAN Connections? I'm not using one, so that can't be it.

Thanks anyway...
Gary
 
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