need computer help.........ready to cry...

[ganesh]

well for some reason when i type in something like say www.uostratics.com. I get a deal to pop up that says. microsoft internet explorer in the top of the box, with a red circle and X in the middle of it. and it says cannot find 'www.uostratics.com', make sure path or internet address is correct.

Now ive tried this with many addresses and they all come back like this. only way i can get to something is by doing a search instead of using the address bar. or using my favorates list.

I seen something where it said that there is something out there that messes up you internet explorer if you dont have that protected. This has just happened since i had my computer completely restored. I did a search to get to www.avast.com to get their anti virus, worm killer. and it found 10 areas infected with trojans and such, and cleaned them out. but I'm still having problems with my internet explorer address bar.

Any ideas, or help would be much appreciated.

[Wizul]

Try uo.stratics.com/

[ganesh]

if it was that simple id have that fixed. Anyone else with a better solution?

[Lazy Ras]

Well..if you had virus/trojan/worm etc. infect your PC, just because they are removed now does'nt mean they did'nt corrupt any files... If all is as simple as ya say, then I would think you have something corrupt somewhere. Either via the registry, or the system files. Now that the virus/trojans are cleaned out, I suppose I would try yet another restore and see what you get. If that does'nt fix it, then we will go a bit further into helping you repair your OS!! ;D Good Luck!!

[Chris1313]

yeah even though those pesky virus are gone they could have changed the odd bit of code , try repaing intenet expl , or even system restore .
i use a good little program called spybot free from earthstation 5 , i let that run a scan everyday couse u never know what little spy program is there . last time it wouldnt let me goto any site cept this site advertising leg cream lol. good luck mate

[Wizul]

I thought at first you just typed in the wrong url but if a lot of them are coming back not found then it is most likely a problem with IE or the registry. There are alot of strange things that can occur with Internet Explorer. You could try uninstalling and reinstalling it. There are also some registry keys you could play around with. Might try searching the microsoft knowledge base for answers.

[jim]

If you type in the whole url including the http:// part does it work?

And it does work if you load from favorites?

[ganesh]

ya http:// works, and favorites work, but up till i posted this, all i had to do was type www.whatever.com to get to the said site. Then again, i been runnin win 98 for so long, this xp stuff has me lost, lol.