IE not connecting

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On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:35:02 +1000, "Brian Bosley"
<bosbrian@ozemail.com.au> wrote:

>IE has suddenly refused to connect on my ADSL (page not available
>etc) My hard drive is virus and adware free and I have made no
>changes to IE. Other browsers and OE still connect ok. Any
>suggestions on where to start looking? (Win XP home SP2)
>
>Cheers
>
>Brian Bosley
>
I have a similar problem. I'm running XP home and ID has problems
connecting to sites. If you hit reload a couple of times it usually
loads the page. Ran a sniffer and on first glance didn't see any
problems. Spybot found a bunch of stuff but has removed them and it
still has the problem

Jeff

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support (More info?)

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 10:29:24 -0400, "Yves Leclerc"
<yvesleclercNOSPAM@sympatico.ca> wrote:

>Sometimes, a virus/spyware infection "may" damage the TCp/IP protocol stack.
>Locate and run "winsockxpfix.exe" and IE should be fixed.
>
>
>"JSS" <onlyjunkmail@email.com> wrote in message
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>> On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:35:02 +1000, "Brian Bosley"
>> <bosbrian@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
>>
>>>IE has suddenly refused to connect on my ADSL (page not available
>>>etc) My hard drive is virus and adware free and I have made no
>>>changes to IE. Other browsers and OE still connect ok. Any
>>>suggestions on where to start looking? (Win XP home SP2)
>>>
>>>Cheers
>>>
>>>Brian Bosley
>>>
>> I have a similar problem. I'm running XP home and ID has problems
>> connecting to sites. If you hit reload a couple of times it usually
>> loads the page. Ran a sniffer and on first glance didn't see any
>> problems. Spybot found a bunch of stuff but has removed them and it
>> still has the problem
>>
>> Jeff
>
Thanks, it seems to fix my problem.

Jeff