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by bfadero

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I have a situation where when it appears my browser has been taken control of(I.E)Whenever I type a url, you can see on the status bar where it says downloading page from site but then it comes up with a message saying internet explorer can not open page. The OS is windows XP and I have run a anti-spyware scan as well as a virus scan and found nothing. I was able to automatically download the latests updates for XP but just can't browse. I have cleared the history as well as the cache but the problems still persists. How can I work around this?

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by electricdragon

Hi-
Suggestions:
First d/l Firefox on another computer and burn it, install it on your machine and see if you can browse.
If not, rename your HOSTS file and see if that helps.
Last, tell us what spyware proggie you used, there are over 300 "Fake" spyware programs out there.
Let us know the results and maybe we can fix ya up.
HTH
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by gary56789

If the IE reinstall doesn't help, reboot into Safe Mode with Networking, download/install/update MS AntiSpyware (if you don't have it already), make sure your other spyware and AV scanners have the latest updates, then scan with each one. Delete anything found and rescan with each. The goal is for these programs to find nothing.

If the problem still exists, download and run WinsockXPFix.exe and LSPFix.eve.

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