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Mike from Peculiar - 29 Dec 2005 22:15 GMT

I find that typing in any web address (example: www.google.com) will always
resulte in a screen stating it could not be found. However, if I use any
address in my History pull down bar, the browser works fine.

History: I suffered a major attack due to not having anti virus software
enabled (stupid, I know). Then I made matters worse by trying to delete
suspect files (never let a marketing person play with your computer). I
finally did a system restore to a previous date and installed Norton
AntiVirus. However, I now have this problem and Earthlink support is useless.

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TaurArian [MS-MVP] - 30 Dec 2005 07:40 GMT

Check
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\URL\Prefixes]
If there is NO data value entry for WWW, add HTTP:// as the data value.
ie: "www"="http://"

Otherwise try the IE Newsgroup

Internet Explorer – OE Client
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.browser
or
Web Client - General
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroups/reader.mspx?dg=microsof
t.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.browser&lang=en&cr=US

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>I find that typing in any web address (example: www.google.com) will always
> resulte in a screen stating it could not be found. However, if I use any
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> finally did a system restore to a previous date and installed Norton
> AntiVirus. However, I now have this problem and Earthlink support is useless.

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