No site opens in IE 2

[fixtar]

Hi Everyone,
I have serious issue with my Internet Explorer 7. IE does not open any website for me. The internet is working fine as i am able to use Firefox to surf. I tried running comboFix, spybot and avg to scan the computer and it somewhat comes clean.

Along with that i have also done the reset from the Tools>Advanced>Reset explorer settings, but the default "customize your settings page" does not show up.

I also see that some of the option in the tool menu are disabled (full screen, menu bar).

Pls let me know what registry changes should i check to resolve this issue.

Appreciate your inputs.

Regards,
MJ

 

[linney]

Here are the two I know about, one you have already mentioned, remember they are only guides and cannot be relied upon to be 100% accurate.

HijackThis log file analysis

http://www.hijackthis.de/index.php

I Am Not A Geek Inc.

http://hjt.networktechs.com/

The message about "Some settings are managed by your system administrator" is probably referring to your access being denied, not necessarily by Group Policy, but by anything such as security programs, or even malware, or registry settings.

http://www.google.com/search?q="Som...ystem+administrator"+ie+xp&rls=com.microsoft:

 

[BadBigBen]

Thanks Smah and Freestone for clearing that up... that is the reason why I did not mention them to be removed, MJ...

Parsing HJT logs, Linney mentioned (in my opinion) a good one, HiJackThis(dot)de... you have to watch, it will flag some entries, e.g. C:\Program Files\... will get flagged as they do not reside in C:\Programme\... (there are a couple of other folders aswell), both are the same location, the DB in use is for the GERMAN Locale...

now you got to understand, and I do believe that you do, that all these automatic log analyzers are just reference material, and what they flag is not always 100%...

that is where common sense and experience come into play, meaning double check the entries by cross referencing them with GOOGLE...

How to remove ctfmon.exe

http://www.ghacks.net/2007/10/22/how-to-remove-ctfmonexe/

@freestone - it is also part of Office XP and O2k7... jfyi...


Ben

"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."

 

[mscallisto]

Thanks linney and BadBigBen for the additional links and the "remove ctfmon" instructions.