Wierd address-bar behaviour in IE6

[aharrisreid]

Using IE6.0.2 with Win98, I have started to get a really wierd effect when entering a

http://www...

address to go to a website. The addressbar starts flashing with lots of strange text, and the progress-bar at the bottom of the window also flashes continuously. The requested page is never displayed.

The only way I have found to stop this effect is to right-click with the pointer over the blank page, and various addresses I can read in the address-bar are;

http://www.rpsearch.com/.../www.myrequestedsite

http://apps.sebservichost.com/.../www.myrequestedsite.

I can't understand why my requested URL has to go via a query-string passed to another site. It may be irrelevant, but my dial-up software was setup automatically by the NTL (my ISP) setup software.

I reinstalled an older version (IE6.0.0), but this made no difference.

Any help would be appreciated.
Alan Harris-Reid

 

[manarth]

methinks you have been struck with spyware.....

I'd recommend faq608-3482 as a starting point, and let us know if this helps...good luck!

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[aharrisreid]

manarth, thanks for the reply.

>>methinks you have been struck with spyware.....

I'd recommend FAQ608-3482 as a starting point, and let us know if this helps...good luck! <<

That did the trick! Downloaded and installed SpyBot - it's excellent!

Regards,
Alan

 

[manarth]

Thanks for the update Alan - glad you're up and running....we all owe a lot of thanks to the creators of spybot

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