leet45single Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 I'm having trouble with my internet explorer it just says cannot display this page. other search engines work fine like google chrome and firefox but not explorer. I've tried reseting and reinstalling explorer 9 but still no luck. any suggestions guys regards lee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wantthatone Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 reset button on the hub Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leet45single Posted April 23, 2011 Author Share Posted April 23, 2011 yep tried all that even took it up to my dads to see if it was the wifi but same up there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hemmjonny Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 Is no site working in IE? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leet45single Posted April 23, 2011 Author Share Posted April 23, 2011 no mate but it is in chrome etc thats what im on now but explorer cant display page even on different sites on my history Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest atkay Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 Which version of IE are you running? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morpheus Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 I don't know if it's related but I had a call from a woman today claiming to be from my cable provider, Virgin Media and wanting me to install Teamviewer to allow 'Microsoft engineers' access to my pc to delete viruses that were alledgedly slowing down my internet connection after I confirmed that indeed it was becoming slower. She sounded far eastern like the last time they called but I gave her a very hard time (ooer!) but out of curiousity, I installed the app and saw someone enter 'prefetch' into the run command line in the Start menu. This brought up a window full of files ending in .pf. Eventually I decided that it was definitely a scam and she hung up when I told her about three times that I didn't want it to go any further. She sounded almost like a machine, very monotone and with a strange Chinese/American accent. Clearly this is a new marketing technique, as she explained that I'd get 9 years free virus protection for all my pc's and free software for a year after which it would cost "Not a penny more than £120". Now I'm trying to delete Teamviewer from the laptop but it doesn't come up in Add/Remove programs. For all I know it could be logging everything I do in the background and deleting it could crash my registry. I wish I could just tell people to F off sometimes when I don't trust them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 Reinstalling IE won't make a difference as the settings will be saved. You want to look to reset all of the settings, Proxy server etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leet45single Posted April 23, 2011 Author Share Posted April 23, 2011 Which version of IE are you running? 9 mate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leet45single Posted April 23, 2011 Author Share Posted April 23, 2011 I don't know if it's related but I had a call from a woman today claiming to be from my cable provider, Virgin Media and wanting me to install Teamviewer to allow 'Microsoft engineers' access to my pc to delete viruses that were alledgedly slowing down my internet connection after I confirmed that indeed it was becoming slower. She sounded far eastern like the last time they called but I gave her a very hard time (ooer!) but out of curiousity, I installed the app and saw someone enter 'prefetch' into the run command line in the Start menu. This brought up a window full of files ending in .pf. Eventually I decided that it was definitely a scam and she hung up when I told her about three times that I didn't want it to go any further. She sounded almost like a machine, very monotone and with a strange Chinese/American accent. Clearly this is a new marketing technique, as she explained that I'd get 9 years free virus protection for all my pc's and free software for a year after which it would cost "Not a penny more than £120". Now I'm trying to delete Teamviewer from the laptop but it doesn't come up in Add/Remove programs. For all I know it could be logging everything I do in the background and deleting it could crash my registry. I wish I could just tell people to F off sometimes when I don't trust them. ye I did the same thing last year they told me to enter the same, I did a bit but when she asked for codes on my screen I said I dont want to continue and hung up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 Check the basics first - have you set it to work offline? (File - work offline), if you have remove that. Next step make sure there are no proxy details entered. Which ISP? Also, just for info Virgin media appears to DNS issues the last week Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leet45single Posted April 23, 2011 Author Share Posted April 23, 2011 Reinstalling IE won't make a difference as the settings will be saved. You want to look to reset all of the settings, Proxy server etc. sorry now you've lost me, proxy server? how do I do that? im not very good with computers so you might need to explain it like im an idiot lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leet45single Posted April 23, 2011 Author Share Posted April 23, 2011 Check the basics first - have you set it to work offline? (File - work offline), if you have remove that. Next step make sure there are no proxy details entered. Which ISP? proxy details? see my last post Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 Have you checked it's not set to work offline already? For proxy: Tools - Internet options - Connections (tab) - LAN settings Make sure nothing is ticked Who is your internet provider? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 I don't know if it's related but I had a call from a woman today claiming to be from my cable provider, Virgin Media and wanting me to install Teamviewer to allow 'Microsoft engineers' access to my pc to delete viruses that were alledgedly slowing down my internet connection after I confirmed that indeed it was becoming slower. She sounded far eastern like the last time they called but I gave her a very hard time (ooer!) but out of curiousity, I installed the app and saw someone enter 'prefetch' into the run command line in the Start menu. This brought up a window full of files ending in .pf. Eventually I decided that it was definitely a scam and she hung up when I told her about three times that I didn't want it to go any further. She sounded almost like a machine, very monotone and with a strange Chinese/American accent. Clearly this is a new marketing technique, as she explained that I'd get 9 years free virus protection for all my pc's and free software for a year after which it would cost "Not a penny more than £120". Now I'm trying to delete Teamviewer from the laptop but it doesn't come up in Add/Remove programs. For all I know it could be logging everything I do in the background and deleting it could crash my registry. I wish I could just tell people to F off sometimes when I don't trust them. For a conspiracy theorist and all round skeptic you sure are rubbish at spotting obvious scams. Be gone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Attero Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 This is why one should not use IE. See if this works: http://en.kioskea.net/forum/affich-45192-internet-explorer-cannot-display-the-webpage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a98pmalcolm Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 Check this... This is most probly the problem Click the widows orb (start menu) -> Control Panel -> Programmes and Features -> Then top right click "Turn Windows Features on or off" wait for it to load. Then make sure the Internet Explorer 9 box is ticked.. if not tick it and restart. If it is ticked untick it, then restart, then retick, then restart. Problem should be solved Reinstalling it wont work if the IE9 feture is turned off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morpheus Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 For a conspiracy theorist and all round skeptic you sure are rubbish at spotting obvious scams. Be gone. Poof! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 Have you checked it's not set to work offline already? For proxy: Tools - Internet options - Connections (tab) - LAN settings Make sure nothing is ticked Who is your internet provider? As above, and run malware scanner, spybot, hijackthis etc.. Something may have injected itself as a man-in-the-middle proxy server attack, which has now disappeared. As Homer said, Virgin seem to be having some VERY funky DNS issue, I got an opendns subscription to just to confirm that it was their DNS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leet45single Posted April 24, 2011 Author Share Posted April 24, 2011 Have you checked it's not set to work offline already? For proxy: Tools - Internet options - Connections (tab) - LAN settings Make sure nothing is ticked Who is your internet provider? tried that make still nothing its plusnet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leet45single Posted April 24, 2011 Author Share Posted April 24, 2011 Check this... This is most probly the problem Click the widows orb (start menu) -> Control Panel -> Programmes and Features -> Then top right click "Turn Windows Features on or off" wait for it to load. Then make sure the Internet Explorer 9 box is ticked.. if not tick it and restart. If it is ticked untick it, then restart, then retick, then restart. Problem should be solved Reinstalling it wont work if the IE9 feture is turned off. tried that mate still nothing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leet45single Posted April 24, 2011 Author Share Posted April 24, 2011 As above, and run malware scanner, spybot, hijackthis etc.. Something may have injected itself as a man-in-the-middle proxy server attack, which has now disappeared. As Homer said, Virgin seem to be having some VERY funky DNS issue, I got an opendns subscription to just to confirm that it was their DNS. ye did that first because I had installed something id seen on the gadget show called pray (in-case my laptop was stolen the website can track it etc) anyway I uninstalled that and run the malware scan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leet45single Posted April 24, 2011 Author Share Posted April 24, 2011 thanks very much guy for all your help its very much appreciated. I think im just going to use chrome instead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 http://74.125.230.111/ Try that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leet45single Posted April 24, 2011 Author Share Posted April 24, 2011 http://74.125.230.111/ Try that. copied and pasted in to explorer still say cannot display webpage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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