When I hit a link on my desktop and some on Web pages, the entire window closes. Do I have a virus? I have already restarted, but the problem keeps happening.

Thanks for the help!

xp? do a system restore back a few days and then run a virus scanner. I recommend Kaspersky Anti-Virus (free)

Thanks. I did a restore to the day prior, but it still happened after a restart. Then, this morning, it seems to be working fine. Hmmm...

Do you have Yahoo Toolbar?

Turn off third party thingies in IE, or uninstall Yahoo Toolbar, that may help.
(Something happened with Yahoo Toolbar yesterday/today, I believe they "upgraded" something.)

quote Originally posted by FieroRumor: Do you have Yahoo Toolbar? Turn off third party thingies in IE, or uninstall Yahoo Toolbar, that may help. (Something happened with Yahoo Toolbar yesterday/today, I believe they "upgraded" something.)

ya ya - in fact - ALL IE TOOLBARS. not one does any good. the Morpheus Toolbar, Google Toolbar, MyWebSearch, etc. - all must go. uninstall. delete. crush kill destroy.

You also might want to start using firefox with an extension called NoScript. This must be the single best thing I have ever done to stop that stuff from arriving in the computer in the first place.

http://www.mozilla.com/

and

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/extensions/

I don't use IE anymore unless I absoutely have to (very rarely)

Well, therein lies the problem, IE. The source of all evil.

Mine was doing something similar last night, but it fixed itself by this morning. If I was connected, as soon as IE opened up fully, the window would close. If I wasn't connected, it would still open up to the blank/error page. But any page of IE, no matter what the address was, would close as soon as it opened fully.

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quote Originally posted by FieroRumor: ...Text typed by FieroRumor...

Welcome back Rumor! How was your vacation from the electronic world?

I don't know why, but for some reason this cracked me up.


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Back on topic, I'd start by running the usual arsonal of programs like: virus scanner, adaware, spybot, and others to see if that makes your problems go away.

quote Originally posted by Deabionni: [hijak] Welcome back Rumor! How was your vacation from the electronic world? I don't know why, but for some reason this cracked me up. [/hijak] Back on topic, I'd start by running the usual arsonal of programs like: virus scanner, adaware, spybot, and others to see if that makes your problems go away.

It was enjoyable.


Do any of the websites you frequent use Java? I've seen this before with sites that have java applets embedded in 'em...

quote Originally posted by FieroRumor: Do you have Yahoo Toolbar? Turn off third party thingies in IE, or uninstall Yahoo Toolbar, that may help. (Something happened with Yahoo Toolbar yesterday/today, I believe they "upgraded" something.)

Here you come back with advise I probally need as I had trouble with my browser yesterday too. Thanks.

It seems fine today, so I'll just wait to see. I did have the Yay-hoo toolbar, so I think you guys are on to it...