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A friend of mine is having some problems with Internet Explorer after getting rid of spyware with cwshredder and spybot S&D. She opens up IE and it shows her homepage (www.google.ca), but then switches to http:///. In the same way, if she types in another page, it'll show momentarily, then switch to http:///. She's got Firefox and Windows Explorer hasn't been affected, so she's not really suffering in the use of her machine, but she's contemplating reformatting because she hasn't got a clue as to what's going on with her machine.

Any ideas?

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All I know is that the World Wide Web Consortium technically says that there should be three backslashes after any case of file:whatever. I don't know the specifics but Unix machines used to (or still do, i dunno i'm no guru) use three backslashes, while windows platforms depended on the browser to interpret what they meant. I know this doesn't at all answer your question of why websites momentarily show up. Tell your friend to try going to
http:///www.google.ca thats all i can guess.

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Please download the utility program HijackThis, run it, and post the log file it generates for us to review.

Instructions for downloading and using HijackThis can be found in our member caperjack's post in this thread:

http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread15641.html

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