An Internet Explorer 6 Frustrating Problem

September 27, 2007

Re: An Internet Explorer 6 Frustrating Problem

turbguy wrote:

> On Sep 26, 3:57 pm, "Bill in Co." <not_really_h...@earthlink.net>

> wrote:

>> PA Bear wrote:

>>> turbguy wrote:

>>>> On Sep 24, 1:02 am, turbguy <wkarb...@gmail.com> wrote:

>>>>> I have had many recent crashes on IE6, SP1 (particulary on content-

>>>>> rich sites, such as nhl.com). When I try to repair it through the add/

>>>>> remove programs part of Control Panel, repair stops and says it cannot

>>>>> be repaired, please run setup again. The details show it cannot load

>>>>> "mstime.dll". I downloaded a good copy of "mstime.dll" and put it in

>>>>> the windows/system folder. Upon further IE6 repair attempts, I get

>>>>> the identical error.

>>

>>>>> Any suggestions??

>>

>>>> This set of posts is getting somewhat convoluted. Let me try my

>>>> summary of EI issues in one post, and actions in another.

>>

>>>> About a week ago, I noticed that "high content" web sites, such as

>>>> NFL.com (which has a LOT of animated adds) acted really strange.

>>>> After the page was fully downloaded (no more network activity

>>>> confirmed), almost the ENTIRE web page would flash, blink (repaint?)

>>>> with any change of ANY animation on the page. If I tried to click on

>>>> any link on the page, I got the "WHITE-BOX" error that IE caused a

>>>> problem with an "Ignore" button and a "Close" button. Neither button

>>>> did much of anything. "Typically" (I tried many times) the system

>>>> just hung up and I had to reset to reboot. Several times the "Close"

>>>> button brought up more white boxes, with different backround programs

>>>> with the same situation. In all cases, I had to reset the machine to

>>>> reboot.

>>

>>>> I eventually started Process Explorer to monitor what was going on

>>>> while I revisited nfl.com. I found that, EVEN AFTER THE PAGE WAS

>>>> FULLY LOADED, IE was using more than 50% of the CPU to keep the

>>>> page up! If I clicked on any link, CPU usage rose 100%, then guess

what,

>>>> PROCESS EXPLORER got the "white box" display! Then IE got the White

>>>> Box display, then the system was hung.

>>

>>>> Somehow, pages with a lot of animation were demanding what I beleive

>>>> to be excessive amounts of CPU load. This apparently caused isues

>>>> with any (many) other backround programs and brought the system down.

>>

>>>> Anybody else experiencing this??

>>

>>> Wish I'd read this reply before posting my last one.

>>

>>> Sounds like a hijackware problem to me.

>>

>> I think so too.- Hide quoted text -

>>

>> - Show quoted text -

>

> Well, I did a scan with Spybot S&D, no change, then a scan with

> XoftSpySE, it found a LOT more bad stuff! I permitted it to fix

> everything, and re-booted.

>

> I then went back to nfl.com and NO FLASHING, NO BLINKING! However,

> upon clicking on the page, another page partially loaded, then the

> "White Box" returned... IEXPLORE caused a problem....CLOSE or

> IGNORE. Details of following screens were as follows...

>

> IEXPLORE caused an invalid page fault in

> module GDI.EXE at 0001:0000722c.

> Registers:

> EAX=00100001 CS=058f EIP=0000722c EFLGS=00000202

> EBX=0000c04f SS=6137 ESP=0000ad08 EBP=0000ad0c

>

> and eventually I have to reboot...The START button will "push down",

> but stays "down" and does nothing...

>

> I see a Microsoft acrticle about this, but it deals with an error

> message upon printing a page, due to a corrupted font "BD DENVER",

> which does not exist in my font folder..

>

> Seems there's always more than one problem...

>

> Anybody got a suggestion given this "new" information?

If you have indeed cleaned out all the malware, and are able to shut down

completely, and then reboot up the system without any more detected malware

problems, then perhaps you can reinstall IE at this point. At least

that's one suggestion. And if that doesn't work, and you still keep

getting these page fault errors and are unable to go further with it in

debugging here, you might consider a fresh new install of windows, painful

as that is.

September 27, 2007

Re: An Internet Explorer 6 Frustrating Problem

1. Your best solution is to backup data that you need and fully scan it

with antivirus and antispyware for problems.

2. Prepare for a complete format of your PC (Get needed cd's, floppies,

manuals, techinical friend's help if you need it, etc.)

3. Format after you are all set

4. Reinstall Windows and programs

5. In the future make sure you make backups frequently of your data and

have proper safety precautions in place before connecting to the Internet

September 27, 2007