Browser trouble

I'm having browser trouble. At random, whenever I click on URLs or hit the "Back" button, I go to some page associated with C|Net. Sometimes, when I refresh, I go to random pages that I've visited in the past but aren't currently visiting.

Plus, I don't know if this is related or not, I've been getting a lot of 404 errors that are cured usually by refreshing or restarting the browser.

Nothing else outside of the browser appears to be working abnormally.

I also don't know if this is related, but it started happening roughly around the time I installed some antivirus software from www.grisoft.com, as someone else recommended on the board, but it persists after uninstalling it.

Yes, I have scanned with another anti-virus program, Ad-Aware, and Spybot Search and Destroy, and none of them came up with anything. Is this just some stupid glitch/error that will force me to install Windows XP or what?

Well, man, if your running a Windows OS earlier that XP and have had it on there for awhile, this may just be a glitch that pops up. Many programs installed on older MS OS's, portions of them stay on the hard drive in the form of .dlls and whatnot and never get completely and utterly removed. XP deals with this better and the hard drive doesn't get gunked up quite as fast or badly, at least in my experience.

Hmmm...well, if you've already run spyware killer and another anti-virus program, there's not much else to try. Try cleaning out the temporary internet files, your cookies, saved offline webpages and see if that helps.

If not, might just wanna look into a format/reinstall, especially if you haven't done one in awhile.

Hmmm, well, this thing has only ever had XP on it (I was aware of that crap on early browsers). I don't know what's causing this mess but I've never seen or heard of it happening before. It's classic symptoms of spyware but I've no idea what it really is. :/

Hmmm...did your spyware killers have to most up-to-date files? Might be a newer version spyware that programs like Ad Aware can't detect yet.

Also...try going to your IE properties and see if anything in there has been changed, certain spyware programs can mess with a few things in there, such as your homepage and whatnot.

The problem may be your cache.

Try going into IE under Tools > Internet Options > General Tab > Settings and adjusting "check for newer versions of stored pages" to "every visit to the page". Click OK, then back on the General tab, click on Delete Files (next to Settings). This should kill off your cache and make the browser start over.

I thought this topic was "Bowser Trouble." Heh, heh. ;)

Get Mozilla.

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Originally posted by diffusionx
Get Mozilla.

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That should fix it too.

I'm having some browswer trouble too. Pictures don't get displayed on alot of websites that I go to, like eBay, for example. A bunch of other sites too. And it's not like one or two pictures. It's pretty much every picture on the site. It's pretty annoying.

Anybody have any idea why this would happen?

Screw Mozilla! Long Live Phoenix! (Granted, Phoeonix is just a compact form of Mozilla) :p

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Originally posted by Rich
Screw Mozilla! Long Live Phoenix! (Granted, Phoeonix is just a compact form of Mozilla) :p

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You bring this up every single time I mention Mozilla. Listen, how's this:

DONT USE INTERNET EXPLORER YOU ASS-CLOWNS! GET SOMETHING ELSE! EVERY OTHER BROWSER (Mozilla, Phoenix, Opera) IS WAYYYY BETTER THAN THAT POS!

Much better!

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Originally posted by CynicalSphere
I'm having browser trouble. At random, whenever I click on URLs or hit the "Back" button, I go to some page associated with C|Net. Sometimes, when I refresh, I go to random pages that I've visited in the past but aren't currently visiting.

Plus, I don't know if this is related or not, I've been getting a lot of 404 errors that are cured usually by refreshing or restarting the browser.

Nothing else outside of the browser appears to be working abnormally.

I also don't know if this is related, but it started happening roughly around the time I installed some antivirus software from www.grisoft.com, as someone else recommended on the board, but it persists after uninstalling it.

Yes, I have scanned with another anti-virus program, Ad-Aware, and Spybot Search and Destroy, and none of them came up with anything. Is this just some stupid glitch/error that will force me to install Windows XP or what?

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Are you using IE6? Have you tried repairing Explorer?