Probs with IE6 with XP Home Edition

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Colin M

I keep getting errors which close IE6 and sends a useless
report to Microsoft telling them of a problem.... Which
has happened for the last 5 days now.

It crashes and says Error ieexplore.exe

Mod Version : 6.0.2800.1259
App Version : 6.0.2800.1106
Module : urlmon.dll

This crashes and when I reload, my homepage changes to
http://cool-search.net

Any idea's

I have checked my computer for Viruses and seems to be
none?

Thanks in advance

Colin
 
Hi Colin.

The clue is the fact that your home page is changing. It's not a virus,
it's scum ware, and you may have given it permission to download by
accepting some "free" thing from the web. You will have to get, and use
adaware and spybot to get rid of such things.
SpyBot here: http://security.kolla.de/
Ad-aware here: http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/

and once you have things cleaned up, you will have to set your security
settings to protect it from happening again.

__Recommended Minimal Security Settings__
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/restricted.htm#Setting
from http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1095227,00.asp

Lastly, I must take issue to your comment about "worthless reports" to
Microsoft. Look at -- What MS does with the information when you send an
error report:
http://watson.microsoft.com/dw/1033/dcp.asp -- to see the reason for such
reports. If you are expecting a reply, you won't get one if that is the
basis of your comment.
 
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