Hi,
While I was searching for some website thru google search, I clicked on a link (I don't remember which, now) and immediately a small dialogue box appeared for a second and then disappeared. But from that moment on, I am not able to view ANY web page through Internet Explorer. It just says 'The page cannot be displayed'. So now I have accessed this site after installing Opera, and that works fine. How can I set right IE? Can anybody help?

hi there veeyemmar click on this link and see if the advice from microsoft helps

Hi Spud, Thanks, but that article talks only about not being able to connect to a website thru a link. But my problem is, even if I type a full id in the address bar, it doesn't connect. But I am online and my messenger works alright right thru.

right we will try it from a different angle! under my signature there is a link called owens help have a look at the advice run the spybot and adaware then post a fresh hijack this log in the spyware and virus forum
let owen have a look at it for you just to make sure that there is not any thing dubious stopping you frrom accessing the sites

if you need help doing this please get back to me


hope this helps

Thaks Spud, I'll run Hijack this and will post the result in the spyware forum

yea i think spuds right from your description, defo sounds like spyware addware related!!

hows you spud m8? had a good holiday??

Hi Spud,
I found out from Windows help that the file winsock.dll is not there where it should be. Infact, the Help Centre says "If the results list includes more than one file with this name, rename all versions of the file that are not located in your Windows\System32\dllcache or Windows\System64\dllcache folder. ' But I could not find even one file with this name, and the search results are a blank. But even now, only IE browser is not working, but Opera works well. What can be done about this?

have you posted the hijack this log yet owen will have a lokok at it for oyu and i think your answer will come from that direction

Yes, I did, and he asked me to update XP to SP2. but my friends are finding a lot of problems after upgrading to SP2. So Iam a little reluctant to do that...