Serious IE problems

I hope this is the right place to post this, but I wasn't really sure where else to post it. Well, I'm having really big problems with Internet explorer. Most pages have difficulty opening when I use it. What happens is I end up seeing lots of jumbled code and the graphics from the page, but no links work and frequently I can't go anywhere from there. It's really starting to frustrate me as I can manage to read my email but I can't reply to it since the send button just refuses to work. Its been like this for a couple of weeks, I've tried using a different web browser (Mozilla Firefox) and I have the same problem there, but when I open pages in AOL they usually work. I got a pop in a grey box maybe a week ago saying that I had a frames problem but I have no clue if that's what my problem is or something else. I have no clue how to fix this problem so if anyone has any suggestions I'd be very grateful. Oh, and the problem started shortly after I ran a spyware finding program, so I was wondering if maybe something had been deleted that shouldn't have been? And, sometimes I get a grey pop up about ActiveX settings not allowing certain sites to display properly, would that affect it too?

Message Edited by PrincessSam on 08-17-2004 03:26 AM