PRELIMINARY STEP: Disable Spybot Tea Timer and leave it disabled until I
tell you it's OK to re-enable it. See
http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=32409
TIP: If you don't fully understand what Tea Timer does and how it does it,
leave it permanently disabled.
1. Download the McAfee Consumer Products Removal Tool, saving it to your
desktop:
http://download.mcafee.com/products/licensed/cust_support_patches/MCPR.exe
2. Close all open applications (i.e., anything with an icon on the taskbar).
3. Double-click on the file you saved in #1 above to run the utility. Don't
TOUCH your keyboard until the run completes, then reboot.
4. Uninstall AVG 8.5 & reboot. Now do a clean install of:
=> Microsoft Security Essentials (free):
http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/default.aspx; or...
=> AVG 9.0. This time select the CUSTOM install option and do NOT install
(i.e., uncheck) Linkscanner, Search-Shield, Active Surf-Shield, Security
toolbar (none of which are IE8-compatible IMHO), or any of the email
scanning components.
• Why you don't need your anti-virus to scan your email
http://thundercloud.net/infoave/tutorials/email-scanning/index.htm
5. Upon reboot, manually & repeated update your new AV app until you get a
"no more updates" prompt.
6. Now see the sections entitled "Problem: Overlong headers result in
HTTP/4xx or HTTP/5xx errors..." (and the related script) AND the section
entitled "Problem: Nested UA String" towards the very bottom of this page
for the fixes you need:
http://www.enhanceie.com/ie/troubleshoot.asp
7. For good measure, reset IE8 Advanced settings after doing the fixes:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923737
8. Reboot once more & test.
--
~PA Bear
Sybarite wrote:
> AVG 8.5.437 up to date virus database
> Spybot search & destroy 1.6.2.46
> Spybot search & destroy teatimer.exe whenever the computer is on
> McAfee was on the computer when new but I never used the trial or
> installed
> it. I deleted it with Windows Uninstall.
>
>> And your answers to my other questions, please?
>>
>> Sybarite wrote:
>>> Fiddlertool: results
>>> Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0;
>>> SIMBAR={177B4739-B5BA-11DC-8134-0019B9735CD4}; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible;
>>> MSIE
>>> 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) ; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC
>>> 5.0;
>>> .NET CLR 3.5.21022; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; yie
>>> 2 errors noted @ fiddlertool- 1. Long UA warning: userstring longer than
>>> 200
>>> characters 2. Nested UA warning: user agent string corrupted, two
>>> instances
>>> of Mozilla/4.0 [token]
>>>
>>> "PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:
>>>> Open IE (only!) to this page: http://www.fiddlertool.com/ua.aspx.
>>>> Highlight/select all of the red text at the top of the page and copy it
>>>> to
>>>> your clipboard. (Also scroll down to see if an issue has been detected
>>>> and
>>>> a possible resolution offered.) Open a reply to this post & paste the
>>>> contents of your clipboard into your reply.
>>>>
>>>> What anti-virus application or security suite is installed and is your
>>>> subscription current? What anti-spyware applications (other than
>>>> Defender)? What third-party firewall (if any)?
>>>>
>>>> Has a(another) Norton or McAfee application ever been installed on the
>>>> computer (e.g., a free-trial version that came preinstalled when you
>>>> bought
>>>> it)?
>>>> --
>>>> Sybarite wrote:
>>>>> I have gone to bank of america website and it says that support will
>>>>> expire
>>>>> for my version of IE6 in 77 days, upgrade to IE8. But, I have IE8
>>>>> installed
>>>>> (8.0.6001.18904IC). I go to the IE8 website and it says I have IE8
>>>>> installed
>>>>> also. I am running vista home premium SP2, 32 bit O/S. I have been to
>>>>> others
>>>>> websites before that said I did not have IE8 installed but I was not
>>>>> concerned because they were not going to block me.