Internet Explorer 6

[Ellimist]

Yes, yes. IE6 is Microsoft software (blah)...

however, having had it since beta release before XP, I am rather fond of and used to it.

Anyway, IE6 was recently hijacked by 'incredifind.com', and I got rid of it with HijackThis!.exe... Now, while it was hijacked, I could not reach any site, as it would always try to take me to incredifind.com. So, now after I got rid of this hijacker, I still cannot access the internet through IE6.

Hold on to your hats, it gets better. I can, however, access the internet through Windows Explorer (for file browsing), like usual, as well as any other brower, Mozilla, Opera, etc. Those are fine and all that, but I want to use IE6... My attempts at uninstalling and reinstalling have ended up with the IE6 install file complaining that a newer version of IE6 is already installed, so it will not continue.

Has anyone seen anything like this or even have any idea how to fix it?

I thank you in advance.

[Kurt]

This should help.

BTW, I'm not sure you used the best tool...

[schmosef]

When in doubt, I use spybot. Never been disappointed.

[Wombat]

Originally posted by schmosef
When in doubt, I use spybot. Never been disappointed.

Actually, there are one or two things that HiJack gets that Spybot misses.

[Ellimist]

well, none of those worked... so right now I have resigned myself to Opera. cracked of course.

and... the only good thing about this is the lack of excess popups...

Thank you.

[dZeus]

well if you don't think it's worth its money, you can always use firefox instead.

[The PIT]

Sonewhere oh somewhere there still will be a high jack. Try it in safe mode with networking support enabled. It may work. I've had this happen and it was due a toolbar that hadn't be uninstalled properly.

Solution, re-install the spyware and then in this case use the uninstall programme, if there is one, then run the spyware removal tools to clean up the leftovers.