IE6 hanging on any site other than the home page

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MacLeod

I have a user with IE6 and Win XP Pro SP2. His home page is msn, though I
changed it to Yahoo for testing. Double click the IE icon and the home page
opens fine. Any other site entered through address line or favorites listing
opens a second instance of IE6 that never loads. It will occasionally flash
the home page again, but then shows a blank screen for 30 seconds before
flashing the home page again. I reinstalled (repaired) Windows with the CD
and the problem vanished, only to reappear four days later. Is this a
profile issue? There are folders on the C drive that say IE7, could a failed
install cause this problem? I examined Add/Remove Programs and IE7 was not
listed.
 
Additionally, I also reset all IE functions to default and everything worked
for those four days. We operate behind a proxy server, but all that info is
correct as well.
 
Once last tidbit. Spysweeper, Spybot, and Ad-aware found nothing amiss.
Hijackthis also showed nothing malicious that shouldn't be there.
 
I don't see a need to post a log since the results are identical to a
separate machine that is working flawlessly.
 
And are you aware that there's hijackware out there that hides information
from HijiackThis until some detective work has been done?
 
Quite aware yes. I'm trying to cover the base of seeing if anyone else has
encountered this type of problem before. I'm well aware of the signs I've
described being a possible hijacking. However, on the off chance that it is
IE related, I thought I'd check. If the only possibility is hijacking than
thank you for your help.
 
Given your description and my experience with such behavior, I'd strongly
recommend ruling /out/ hijackware before doing anything else.
There are folders on the C drive that
say IE7, could a failed install cause this problem? I examined
Add/Remove Programs and IE7 was not listed.
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What folders? If IE7 is installed, it'd be listed in Add/Remove Programs
under "Windows Internet Explorer 7".
 
Thanks

PA Bear said:
Given your description and my experience with such behavior, I'd strongly
recommend ruling /out/ hijackware before doing anything else.


What folders? If IE7 is installed, it'd be listed in Add/Remove Programs
under "Windows Internet Explorer 7".
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