Internet Problems

wul3er · Post by **wul3er** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 12:01 am

Does anyone know why i keep getting "This page cannot be displayed" Error nearly every time i try to goto a website.

Its started hapening recently and now its happening about 90% of the time im on the net which is really annoying. I have tried to solve it by turning the security leval down but it hasnt worked, It isnt dodgy sites either its everything, INcluding sites which i havent had a problem with before.

Usually when something goes wrong with my computer i save everything onto Cd and rebbot the system, But i would rather be able to fix this instead of waisting all my cd's saving stuff.

All help is much appreciated

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 5:11 am

being having this problem on and off the past few days as well.... i suspect either physical malfunctions in some backbone somewhere, overloads from too many people getting broadband too fast, or some new virus that mainly attacks server software.....

or maybe just http://www.ilovebees.com

Speedlaw · Post by **Speedlaw** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 8:03 am

Wow, I thought it was my ADSL. It's been like this since a day or three I think. Lots of timeouts, pages not loading for ten to twenty seconds, then bursting down all at once.

Weird.

Si_GTi · Post by **Si_GTi** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 12:42 pm

wul3er have you tried a complete virus scan to make sure you're not infected? Just a precaution - I presume you already have some form of anti-virus software on the go already.

Having said that I've had similar problems at home with IE6 over the last few weeks, although at work all is well. Like you I checked all the settings, to no effect. In the end I installed a copy of Avant internet browser from one of my Dad's PC Plus DVDs and that goes really well, everything loads up just fine. It also copies all your IE favourites across and supports tabbed browsing, so I'm well chuffed.

Other alternatives to Avant are Opera or Mozilla/Thunderbird, amongst others.

HTH

wul3er · Post by **wul3er** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 8:20 pm

Cheers for all the help peeps, i think it might be a server problem or something, I done a full scann of the computer last night and i set it to check every single file. There was nothing there.

I might try that other browser if i manage to get a copy.

SteB · Post by **SteB** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 8:56 pm

sorry to be the barer of bad news people, but if you have this problem you've probably got a trojan called "download.ject"... which is a bit of a bastard, so i suggest you get to this site:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en

... and download the removal tool, then run it, then reboot, then get ya'sen some antivirus and firewall software !!

Hope this works

Ste

Speedlaw · Post by **Speedlaw** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 9:30 pm

I thought of Virusses/Trojans but TrendMicro says the PC is clean. The tool you suggested didn't find an infection either, but thanks for pointing to a solution though!

Man, I think it's something evil though - just haven't found it yet.

wul3er · Post by **wul3er** » Wed Aug 18, 2004 12:03 am

Same as abouve but with a different scanner, It seems to be better now. Just the occasional "freeze" then i have to wait ages or reboot.

But again thanks for pointing that out. Ive kept the tool for the future (just incase)

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Wed Aug 18, 2004 1:54 am

would that trojan infect w98 machines? most the modern stuff seems to exploit silly XP holes...

avant, i used that for a while, but its like XP, just a prettification interface that sits on top of internet explorer (though the mouse-gestures thing is most useful!) .... the fact that it was IE but slower and just as unstable if not more so made me abandon it.

using firefox now, theres still a couple things that need tweaking with it (javascript etc) but that's why its still only a 0.9 beta i guess!