Computer Geeks.

[R J]

My software/machine is corrupting the Winsock somewhere.

I have deleted a program one at a time in an attempt to find the culprit.

So far no luck.

I have XP Professional.

IE 8

Sunbelt Personal Firewall
Sunbelt Vipre, anti virus

Incredimail

Maxtor backup drives.

Router

Cable service

Any suggestions on where to  look?

Tanx in advance      

[Colin]

Try running Spybot (it's a free download) to see if you have any nasties lurking there. Once you have got rid of them go to a command prompt and type "Netsh winsock reset" (without the quotes). The re-boot your machine and hopefully all will be well.

[R J]

I just reboot & it fixes itself till whatever it is that trips it's trigger.

Have run Spybot several times already to no avail.

I'll keep playing and looking.

Thanks. Bro.

[1fastbob]

Try Malwarebytes anti-malware software.  It's free and you can download it here

http://www.malwarebytes.org/

Bob

[Duey]

 

[Dogg]

its a registry error. must clean registry. its a bad key that is supposed to redirect but isnt workin, screwing everything up.

http://www.regcure.com/
you can try this. but there are many you can use to accomplish this.

[Duey]

 

[R J]

Thanks for all the suggestions.

Have tried them all, so we see wha happens.

[Robert]

I did have a problem with IE 8 on one of my computers went back to 7 and no problems.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms740668%28VS.85%29.aspx

[Duey]