Hello Synthzone friends,

I'm hoping one of the PC & Windows XP experts here might be able to help me solve an IE 6 problem I'm having which began about 24-48 hours ago.

First of all, I have a high speed DSL connection, and prior to yesterday, webpages would typically come up quickly & smoothly, with the IE page load 'status bar' appearing at the bottom of the IE window, quickly beoming filled (green), and then the status bar instantly gone, allowing the webpage to be freely viewed and scrolled.

Begining yesterday, when I now call up IE initially, or when pulling up a new webpage, there is now often a 10 second delay before any inital webpage window appears, followed by the page load 'status bar' appearing. Oddly, after the status bar appears, and shows the green bar filled, there is now like a 3-5 second delay before the filled green status bar finaly disappears, and the webpage is able to be scrolled. Previously, as soon as the status bar was completely filled (green), the bar would immediately disappear, allowing the page to be viewed and scrolled right away.

My first suspcision was that this might have been caused by spyware or a computer virus. I ran all Norton Utilities modules and Norton Anti-Virus with the latest virus definitions and it came back clean. I also cleaned out (deleted) my IE 6 cache & temporary files. I then ran my Spyware Programs "SpySweeper 4.53" and AdAware SE Plus 6. Though SpySweeper came back with clean test results, Adaware came back and advised me that I had a possible browser HiJack attempt. Adaware quarantined the suspcious file, but when I go back into IE, after re-booting, I'm still experiencing the webpage loading glitch when I browse on IE. It's not terrible, but it certainly is annoying to have to put up with the webpage load delays. Btw, I verified that the problem is not in my DSL line itself, because I have another PC connected on the same ROUTER (LinkSys) that is not experiencing this problem at all. After swapping Router output lines, the problem still only presists on my main PC.

I hope I've provided enough details here for the SZ Windows PC Experts to help me solve & resolve the problem. Thanks in advance.

Scott