Need help: Not sure what's going on

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Since installing XP Professional I've had problems. When I am on a game site
or some catalog site and I try to play a game or go to a certain item , it
will start to download the page and then everything closes and I'm back to my
desktop. Gets pretty frustating. When I had ME I had no problems with any
of the sites that I now can't go to. I can reach some by going to control
panel and typing in the url there.
Any help or insite would be appreciated
Barbie
 
That does sound frustrating. Can you reach any of the pages you were using by
typing ALT-Tab? My current page often "goes away" and I can reach it with
this key combination. Hope this helps.
 
I've had good luck fixing strange problems in IE just by making sure I've
downloaded all the available patches from windowsupdate (not necessarily
including SP2, if you're not so inclined). Download and install those,
reboot your machine, run WU again, and install any remaining patches.

HTH.

:) LB
 
Barbie136 said:
Since installing XP Professional I've had problems. When I am on a
game site or some catalog site and I try to play a game or go to a
certain item , it will start to download the page and then everything
closes and I'm back to my desktop. Gets pretty frustating. When I
had ME I had no problems with any of the sites that I now can't go
to. I can reach some by going to control panel and typing in the url
there.
Any help or insite would be appreciated
Barbie
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First eliminate any spyware.
What You Should Know About Spyware
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/devioussoftware.mspx

CAUTION!!!!! Before you try to remove spyware using any of these programs ,
download a copy of LSPFIX from any of the following sites:
http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm
http://www.spychecker.com/program/winsockxpfix.html
(if your OS is Win2k or XP) The process of removing certain malware may kill
your internet connection. If this should occur, this program, LSPFIX, will
enable you to regain your connection.

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

Note that AdAware and SpyBot S & D will each catch some things the other
won't. Also, each needs to be updated with the program's update function
before every use, even when just downloaded. There's also a lot more to do
than just those two programs. CWShredder is also available here:
http://www.intermute.com/products/cwshredder
**Post your HijackThis log to
http://www.spywareinfo.com/forums/
http://forums.tomcoyote.org/
http://castlecops.com/forum67.html
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/ or the Spyware forum at
http://forum.aumha.org/viewforum.php?f=30 for expert analysis, not here.**
Alternative download pages for Ad-Aware, Spybot, HijackThis and CWShredder
may be found on this page:
http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm.

See also:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...a2-6a57-4c57-a8bd-dbf62eda9671&DisplayLang=en
for the new Microsoft program which was previously released by Giant
Software.

See this link for information about malware:
http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/malware.ars

If nothing there helps, please post back to this thread.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE
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Protect your PC
http://www.microsoft.com./athome/security/protect/default.aspx
 
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