Very strange... sounds like the spybot MSIE plugin is a bit too overactive on blocking things. I have to admit though, it seems a bit over the top as excite.com has been around for a long time! If...

I remember a year or so ago I wasn't able to send/receive emails from Hotmail (couldn't tell you if Yahoo worked though), but the problem with my machine was an over-powering advert blocker which was...

Are you able to browse from another machine and the content is all as it should be? The new design?

If so, then its one of 2 possibilities:
1. the original owner's browser cache is holding the...

Are you using a HTTP proxy in your Internet Options?

You can check this by going to Control Panel > Internet Options > "Connections" tab and then "LAN Settings".

Firefox has its own proxy...

On a quick run through some google results, it seems a few people managed to fix this issue by running a DCOM update. I would therefore recommend maybe running a Windows Update if possible.

One...