puzzling problemin IE6/XP adds a "www" and ".net" to every address. need help

nahmus · Jul 2, 2005

puzzling problemin IE6/XP adds a "www" and ".net" to every address. need help

Hi all.
As it says in my title when i try to go to "www.dell.com" in the bottom status window its trying to find www.www.dell.com.net and since that diesn ot exist it cant find it. I've re-installed the IE by going into windows/inf and right clicking and selecting install on the IE file but its still there. any ideas?

This drive was removed and scanned onmy other pc for trojans and virii. It has also been cleaned of spyware.

If i load the PC into safe mode IE works fine.

any ideas?

willkill1337 · Jul 2, 2005

Bizzare, the only similar thing I can think of is how if you press control and enter when you have typed in say "Dell," you get "http://www.dell.com."

You know you could just try another browser :beer:

nahmus · Jul 2, 2005

I know i can switch to firefox but if IE does not work then there's no windows update. Also, firefox causes errors on the mysprintpcs.com web page allong with bankof america. The customer needs IE

kill me2 · Jul 2, 2005

That sometimes happens of the DNS server fails, or your internet connection is being screwy at the moment.

willkill1337 · Jul 2, 2005

Yeah, if IE can't find your web address, I think it tries .net, .gov etc.

nahmus · Jul 2, 2005

It works fine if its booted into safe mode. Also every computer on my network is working fine. This is really puzzling!

redduc900 · Jul 2, 2005

Start | Run | Type regedit, and click OK | Expand the following branch...

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE | SOFTWARE | Microsoft | Windows | CurrentVersion | URL | DefaultPrefix

Highlight the DefaultPrefix Key in the LH pane, and locate the String value name Default in the RH pane | The String value should be http:// | If it's anything other than this, right click the Default String value name and select "Modify" | In the "Edit String" window that opens, enter http:// into the Value data field. Next, expand this next branch...

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE | SOFTWARE | Microsoft | Windows | CurrentVersion | URL | Prefixes

Highlight the Prefixes Key in the LH pane, and check in the RH pane for the correct String value names and Value data. They should look like the following...

Code:

[b]Name[/b]               [b]Data[/b]

ftp                ftp://
gopher             gopher://
home               http://
mosaic             http://
www                http://

As I noted above, if any of the Value names don't correspond to what I have listed, modify the values accordingly. One more thing you can check; expand the following branch...

HKEY_CURRENT_USER | Software | Microsoft | Internet Explorer | URLSearchHooks

Check the String Value name in the RH pane; it should be...

{CFBFAE00-17A6-11D0-99CB-00C04FD64497}

...with no Value data entered.

nahmus · Jul 2, 2005

I had checked that but did it again to be sure. There all ok. The thing that is killing me is that it works fine in safe mode. this means that SOMETHING is getting loaded thats making it fail.

Also, Firefox does not work in regular mode. I get "your connection was refused by" and whateverthe web site was.

I have re-installed ie6 (by registry edit and download)
copied the IE directory from a working PC
removed the drive and scanned it with nortons, and the cleaner
booted it in the Pc and scanned it with adaware, spybot, panda online scan, the cleaner cwshredder, hijack this,homesearch delete program.

Could this be something new that's not detectable yet? I'm running out of ideas.

nahmus · Jul 2, 2005

another puzzling thing. is that the memsizes are different between both computers. I'm running xppro and this is a compaq version of xphome so that might be the difference.

mine iexplore 4556 explorer 30852
compaq (pc in question) iexplore 11344 explorer 14032

redduc900 · Jul 2, 2005

Try this...open a command prompt (Start | Run | Type cmd, and click OK) | Type the following, hitting ENTER after each line...

ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /registerdns

If the above doesn't work for you...Start | Run | Type regsvr32 urlmon.dll, and click OK | After you get a Success message, reboot.

nahmus · Jul 2, 2005

Now it is trying to run a script as soon as i run explorer. It looke like a MS box but if iclick yes I get the error that active x scripts cannot be run. the homepage is www.msn.com As far as I know there should not be any scripts. Is there a way to see what it trying to run?

redduc900 · Jul 2, 2005

That's because under Tools | Internet Options | "Security" tab | Internet Zone | "Custom Level" button...you have "Run ActiveX controls and plug-ins" set to "Prompt", instead of "Enable". "Prompt" is the preferred setting anyway, especially since this latest vulnerability affecting IE...

Microsoft Security Advisory (903144)
A COM Object (Javaprxy.dll) Could Cause Internet Explorer to Unexpectedly Exit
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/903144.mspx

nahmus · Jul 2, 2005

but should it be trying to run an active x script as soon as IE starts? I can allways allow it to see what happens.

tried your suggestions and its still the same. gonna allow active x and see if anything changes

nahmus · Jul 2, 2005

I have the zone set to low. i enabled all active x options. Is still tries to run some active X script and then fails.

When i first started with this is was infected with the "agent" backdoor/trojan program. This means that this PC was probably used as a zombie. SP2 was not installed. I have since installed SP2.

nahmus · Jul 2, 2005

I do have the symptoms in that MS advisory. I have just run the MS java removal tool. Gonna load the sun JVM.

nahmus · Jul 2, 2005

If i try an ftp site FTP.SCO.COM it does not add any extra suffixes. It just gives me an error that a connection to the server could not be established.

I can also ping sites by name and IP address.

I have also removed and re-installed the network adapter.

nahmus · Jul 2, 2005

If i check the following box in Internet Options -> advanced the activex error i get goes away

Allow active content to run in my files on MY Computer

nahmus · Jul 2, 2005

well i just worked my way through all of microsofts tech support levels and they are stumped. Now they want me to pay for help. No thanks. If this is a virus them there figure it out when everyone gets it.

thanks everyone for the suggestions.

restore partition here i come!

threeme2189 · Jul 3, 2005

i would format the drive. solves all of the software problems.

nahmus · Jul 3, 2005

ya thats what I ended up doing. I was just being a geek. It really bothers me if i can't figure out whats wrong.

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