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HELP!!!! (MSIE crappin' out!!)
Zoltan
Ranger
in Zocalo v2.0
I'm having a problem with my Internet Explorer. It's been going for a while now, but it seems to just get worse and worse.
First of all, I start surfing a lil' bit, and after a while, 5,000 pop-ups start popping up all over the screen, just out of the blue. (Okay not THAT much, but a LOT). For every ONE window I close, 20 more pop-up to take it's place. They're freakin' poppin' up faster than I can close 'em. So then I hold down ALT+F4 and close every single IE window. Then it gives me some stupid "Abnormal termination" BS. It says something about "this program referanced memory at...." bla bla bla. Whatever. That doesn't really affect it or anything, I can just close that window, and open up IE again.
Anyway... the second thing, is that I have to reset my default home page AT LEAST once a day. Something (no idea what) keeps changing it all the time, to some gay-arse search-engine.
Third (and this just happened last night), it made everything all centered now. How do I fix this? It's the most annoying part of it all. I have 2 forums which I frequent (this, and one other one) and I'm used to all the posts and everything being on (or starting on) the left side. For some reason, tho, my IE decided to put everything in the center..... and I can't find the option to undo it, or make all text go on the left, or whatever. WTF?!?!?!?!?
Is there some kind of keyboard-shortcut or something that I might have inadvertadly pressed to change the alignment?
I am running Win XP Pro with SP1, and IE version: 6.0.2800.1106.xpsp1.020828-1920.
I think it might be infected with some kind of a bug... or something. Funny thing is, IE is the only thing I seem to be having a problem with. Everything ELSE is working just fine.
If any of you computer-whiz/geniuses, etc... out there have an suggestions, I sure would be greatful.
Thanx for the help, (in advance)
-Zoltan
First of all, I start surfing a lil' bit, and after a while, 5,000 pop-ups start popping up all over the screen, just out of the blue. (Okay not THAT much, but a LOT). For every ONE window I close, 20 more pop-up to take it's place. They're freakin' poppin' up faster than I can close 'em. So then I hold down ALT+F4 and close every single IE window. Then it gives me some stupid "Abnormal termination" BS. It says something about "this program referanced memory at...." bla bla bla. Whatever. That doesn't really affect it or anything, I can just close that window, and open up IE again.
Anyway... the second thing, is that I have to reset my default home page AT LEAST once a day. Something (no idea what) keeps changing it all the time, to some gay-arse search-engine.
Third (and this just happened last night), it made everything all centered now. How do I fix this? It's the most annoying part of it all. I have 2 forums which I frequent (this, and one other one) and I'm used to all the posts and everything being on (or starting on) the left side. For some reason, tho, my IE decided to put everything in the center..... and I can't find the option to undo it, or make all text go on the left, or whatever. WTF?!?!?!?!?
Is there some kind of keyboard-shortcut or something that I might have inadvertadly pressed to change the alignment?
I am running Win XP Pro with SP1, and IE version: 6.0.2800.1106.xpsp1.020828-1920.
I think it might be infected with some kind of a bug... or something. Funny thing is, IE is the only thing I seem to be having a problem with. Everything ELSE is working just fine.
If any of you computer-whiz/geniuses, etc... out there have an suggestions, I sure would be greatful.
Thanx for the help, (in advance)
-Zoltan
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As for IE not working, try [URL=http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp]Netscape[/URL], [URL=http://www.mozilla.org/products/firebird/]Mozilla Firebird[/URL], or [URL=http://www.opera.com/]Opera[/URL]. You'll get lots of opinions here as to which is best... ;)
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I'm with Phi on this. Install and run adaware, then change to a decent browser where you can actually control your security settings properly. I recommend Firebird. It's light and fast.
as for the rest, I'm in agreement with the others.
Just to make sure, as SpybotSD can find stuff that Ad-Aware seems to sometimes miss.
And with consecutive popups, some firewalls allow to "lock down" the internet. Keep the lock button in the background, and when you see the first secondary popup, lockdown, close the popups and continue as you used to. I think I should try Opera too...
I was going to suggest Spybot and Adaware, but it seems the rest got to you first :)
As for spybot, this is just my experience but I didn't care much for it. Sure it had some cool features, but it ended up screwing up IE.
Just hit CTRL ALT DEL and kill the process. Then run AdAware and nuke it.
Just think about it for a second.
If you are a nefarious virus/spyware/bot/evil program writer, who do you target ?
Mac users running Opera ?
Hardly... Mac has how much market share ? 5% ? and then you pick Opera, which perhaps means youre targeting 10% of 5%...
...which means you're wasting your time.
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If you want half a chance of surviving against the digital scum, then you avoid the mainstream. The scum target the most common and widest 'market' they can. They know that they stand the best chance of getting thier shit out there and thriving by targeting the most common OS, the most common apps, the most common browsers.
So do your homework, find the best running, most obscure versions of whatever you need and then you may just keep your machine relatively free of crap. There are a million and one alternatives to M$ft and the more common apps. Use them, be safe, and promote 'genetic diversty' in the digital realm.
If we dont, we run the same sorts of risks that we do in the biological world. Right now we have only 60 or so major crop cultivars
(plant species). They provide us with the bulk of our food. All it would take is one Uber virus to cause massive starvation.
Thats why there are a bunch of arbouretums and plant 'archives' which keep thousands of obscure cultivars which may be resistant to such an Uber virus... and we may not starve to death because some dedicated scientists and plant lovers kept the 'poor yielding', wild and weird versions of food plants alive.
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The ame sort of principile applies in the digital world. WE MUST DIVERSIFY. We must have enough variations, enough differing 'species' of computer hardware and software, lest we end up with a plague which may undo the world....
[B]the key here is a very simple rule of thumb that works time and time again.
Just think about it for a second.
If you are a nefarious virus/spyware/bot/evil program writer, who do you target ?
Mac users running Opera ?
Hardly... Mac has how much market share ? 5% ? and then you pick Opera, which perhaps means youre targeting 10% of 5%...
...which means you're wasting your time.
~~~~
If you want half a chance of surviving against the digital scum, then you avoid the mainstream. The scum target the most common and widest 'market' they can. They know that they stand the best chance of getting thier shit out there and thriving by targeting the most common OS, the most common apps, the most common browsers.
So do your homework, find the best running, most obscure versions of whatever you need and then you may just keep your machine relatively free of crap. There are a million and one alternatives to M$ft and the more common apps. Use them, be safe, and promote 'genetic diversty' in the digital realm.
If we dont, we run the same sorts of risks that we do in the biological world. Right now we have only 60 or so major crop cultivars
(plant species). They provide us with the bulk of our food. All it would take is one Uber virus to cause massive starvation.
Thats why there are a bunch of arbouretums and plant 'archives' which keep thousands of obscure cultivars which may be resistant to such an Uber virus... and we may not starve to death because some dedicated scientists and plant lovers kept the 'poor yielding', wild and weird versions of food plants alive.
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The ame sort of principile applies in the digital world. WE MUST DIVERSIFY. We must have enough variations, enough differing 'species' of computer hardware and software, lest we end up with a plague which may undo the world.... [/B][/QUOTE]
Ummm.... yeah.
"And he thrusts his fist against the post,
and still insists, he sees the ghost."
-Zoltan
[B][/B][/QUOTE]
Or, you just use an OS or Account in which limited permissions are present such that it's impossible to modify system files on such a level. i.e. Limited user, WinNT/2k/XP, Mac OS X (--9 doesn't count because the automated installers used in modern spyware could not function), Linux (Because it's so heavily based on permissions and is secure because it's closed by default), etc.
[B]Or, you just use an OS or Account in which limited permissions are present such that it's impossible to modify system files on such a level. i.e. Limited user, WinNT/2k/XP, Mac OS X (--9 doesn't count because the automated installers used in modern spyware could not function), Linux (Because it's so heavily based on permissions and is secure because it's closed by default), etc. [/B][/QUOTE]
Or flat out deny write access to the Windows dir, which prevents the installation of the necessary DLLs.