On www.reuters.com, I can open the home page, but starting today, every time I click a link on the home page to an article, the IE 6 browser window resizes into a narrow strip along the left side of the screen. I just did a complete scan of my computer with Norton Antivirus, and I have no viruses on my computer. Does anyone else have this problem? (Try it.)
Also if I try to resize the window, it refuses. I pull it to the right to resize it and it jumps back. The only thing I can do is close that window. Other IE windows on my computer are not affected, nor do I have any problem with other sites. I have never seen this problem before. It looks like a virus, but I just checked my computer. Any help would be appreciated. Here is all the info about my computer:
Dimension 700cx, celeron processor, 384mb ram, Windows XP Home, IE6 sp1. I have all Windows and IE6 updates installed, always have Zonealarm and NAV running, and I use AdAware frequently.
Denny Denham,
since you imply it's my computer and not the website, I think I'm going to do a System Restore now, then I'll post again in a few minutes whether that worked.
Go to TOOLS in the Internet Explorer window then to Internet Options. Then Delete cookies and then go to the Advanced tab and Restore Defaults. See if that fixes your problem. Basically it looks like it is using your favorites section for media.
The site is working properly for me this morning even though I didn't do anything more to my computer since the system restore didn't help. Strange that no one else had this problem. I even clicked on some of the original links I had clicked on last night, and they worked fine. By the way, some software I also have installed on my computer is "Propel Accelerator", which keeps its own cache of temporary files, but I have no reason to think that Propel caused it, and I also have the Google toolbar with popup stopper.
Message Edited by ajmi81978 on 12-26-2003 09:36 AM
IT'S DOING IT AGAIN! Now I see why others haven't detected the problem. You have to read several articles, and then even disconnect and come back later before the problem starts up again. Or maybe it's my computer. I'll experiment with all of the suggestions given, later this afternoon.
I tried the site earlier today (when I posted) and haven't restarted my PC and I just tried it again and several articles on the site and still working.
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I tried all the suggestions, plus I ran Spybot which just had some cookies to delete, and none worked. I can view just a few of the links, then the problem starts up again.
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The site works properly for me (IE6 SP1, Mozilla, Opera).