IE6 probs

[smite]

I am having probs with IE starting up...it is taking about 20 mins to actually open up.
This started after i went onto a site which tried to download something, my "Tiny firewall" kicked in asking if i wanted to allow this and because of the nature of the site  :oops: i said no. I then had another message from Tiny Firewall that DLOAD.exe from C:/ was trying to download something and stopped that one. I went looking for DLOAD.exe and couldnt find it.
Since this point i t takes ages to load.
Today i went into C:/ and found DLOAD.exe and deleted it...Should i have done this?? Does anyone else have this exe?

If this problem persists is there anyway to un-install IE6 and re-install??


Cheers Smite.

[smilodon]

There's no such file as dload.exe in windows (XP at least). What you had was a porn dialer  8O  You beast.

Empty the cache and see what happens.

[smite]

Easiest way to empty cache??
Delete temp files cookies etc.. anything else???

Done the above but seems to be the same.

There were 2 files that whenever i tried to delete them would crash my system they were
diaD APP
diaE APP
Couldnt find out what they were from google.

Strangely moving them to the recycle bin seemed to work.

[smilodon]

Yeah that's the way to do it for IE. You can manually delete stuff from the "Temporary Internet Files" folder, which you seem to have done.

Also delete the contents of the temp folder. Are you running XP?

[smite]

yes

[smilodon]

I still think it was a dialer rather than a trojan. Are you running any anti-trojan software (TDS-3, BoClean, Trojan Hunter, Tauscan) ?

You can grab evaluation copies of most of them (except BoClean) and scan your system.

This still doesn't explain the slow loading of IE.

There was a problem in IE 5.5 and it might exist in IE 6 where if you have lots of additional fonts installed IE has to load them all and this can bog it down. MIght help?

[Anonymous]

Check the connection settings tab under tools/options. Ensure that it is set to use a LAN connection and not a dialer, additionally check for strange settings under the proxy part of LAN settings, You shouldn't really need anything set against proxy (all 3 boxes UNticked) unless you are using some popup stoppers which can frequently set up a "false" proxy on port 8080 to filter out the ads.

You should also untick the box in "advanced" that tells IE to check whether it is up to date each time it starts - if it trying to check that then it could take a while if it is downloading update files.

HTH?

[smite]

Strangely enough it has now moved onto outlook express and IE6 starts up fine :?  :?

Smilo cheers mate ill have a look at some of them progs.

BB i have checked the LAN settings and they are fine, but did change the "check for updates" option on the advanced tab ..cheers also.