Need help with internet explorer.

[alig]

Can anyone tell me why its doing this....its starting to piss me off as it happens often and on certain websites.

[Tratos]

Simple way to solve your problem.

Dont use Internet Explorer.

Go to www.download.com (http://www.download.com) (if you can get it to load, lol)

and search for Avant Browser,

Avant Browser = The Win.

~Tratos

[blaczero]

its spyware, get "ad aware" and "spybot search and destroy" to clean it off of your machine.

and the previous poster is correct, IE and outlook are 2 of the crappiest applications anyone could use.

i would suggest firefox for a browser from mozilla.org, it has an integrated pop up browser and image blocker.

[subsys]

i second firefox as a browser, shit hot imo. thunderbird (mozilla mail client) is damn good also, opera is also nice if your prefere an all in one.

think of ie as a giant hole in your computer and you can kinda grasp how secure it is.

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windows update!!!

[alig]

Ok thx...ill try one of them.

I never do windows update though, 1) XP is still vunerable 2) one of their updates screws my internet connection up (As said by FreeServe themselfs) and 3) my XP is not legit o_O so i cant get service packs.

[Birkoff]

Get opera :)

[Alamais]

Yar! Opera all the way. ;)

[alig]

Where do i find this opera?

How do i set it as default internet as well when i put it on?

[subsys]

http://www.opera.com/

it will ask you the first time you start it up, just say yes i want opera to be my defult browser

[Girian]

1. Download Ad Aware (www.lavasoftusa.com)

or

2. Download Firefox -previously known as FireBird- (http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/)

[alig]

Tried ad-aware....it didnt help, only had 5 things to remove, recently reformatted :( so im going to try one of these internet browsers now.

[Spoon]

I say you got your security levels set too high to view gamershell...

Go to Internet Options>Security tab>Internet and set the level to low or medium.....

It's probably trying to run an ActiveX control or java/script crap that your settings won't allow....

[FreeBassX]

FireFox = Teh Win!!!! Fast, minimal, cross-platform and supports all the essential plugins. (ie. Java, Shockwave / Flash, ect)

IE = Broken, non-standard, security risk and non-cross platform.

Opera = Bloated browser, still better than IE though and cross platform.

Lynx / Links = Ub3r browsers, but not sutiable for 95% of all people cause they need their pretty little pictures and their clicky icons to make things work.

Mozilla = Very nice, but yet a little bloated cause of the Composer, Mail Client and Chatzilla. But, easily overlooked due to it being cross-platform.

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my XP is not legit

well maybe there lies the problem, and no this isnt a bag on pirated software, but it could very well be the cause....maybe........who knows, this is the reason I use computers not fix them :lol:

[Nidhogg]

Software piracy is theft. Thread closed.

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