IE Stops Working After 10 Minutes

[steelman]

I'm having some IE problems. I can only view web pages on IE for 10 minutes when my computer first boots up, after that, I cannot display any pages. I have Internet connectivity, I can ping sites and use instant messenger, however no web pages will load. Any thoughts???

[cscgal]

I am behind a switch and a cable modem, and sometimes this happens to me, too. I actually have to go into my Linksys switch control panel, and renew my cable modem's IP address, and suddenly it all works again. No idea why - I'm sure it's because I probably have something misconfigured. Are you on dial-up? DSL? Cable?

[steelman]

Thanks for the tip, but I tried what you said and the problem remains. Thanks anyways.

[saliva]

not quite sure if this will help but you might want to disable 3rd-party toolbars (e.g. Google or Yahoo toolbar) if you have any by going to Tools>InternetOptions>Advanced and uncheck "Enable third party browser extensions"

[steelman]

i do have a google toolbar so i tried disabling it, uninstalling it, and unchecking the browser extensions box, unfortuanately i still can't view pages. however, i did notice that i can still view secured pages that use ssl, i don't know why this is, but they are the only sites i can view after 10 minutes. thanks for the help though!

[techahbeng]

The latest variants of viruses cause this problem on several of my client's site. If you telnet into the router, you will see tonnes of outgoing connections to random Ip addresses.

Thus if one machine on the network is infected, it is enough to slow down the Internet connection to 0. Because the virus is trying to push 100MB of outgoing traffic through your 512k/1MB cable or broadband connection.

Spywares are also another culprit but to a lesser extend.

[steelman]

thanks for the tip, i'll try looking into that.

[smilinjack]

I'm having some IE problems. I can only view web pages on IE for 10 minutes when my computer first boots up, after that, I cannot display any pages. I have Internet connectivity, I can ping sites and use instant messenger, however no web pages will load. Any thoughts???

Been having the exact same problems since last wednesday...have any success yet?
over and out

[VIP0R]

Ive also got this problem, it start at least a week ago, and I first noticed strange things that was going on with MSN Messenger, when I clicked Email, IE opens up, then it says done (in the bottom left) almost straight away and is Blank

If I restart Computer it works fine for a while, and also if I use Firefox after it wouldnt work in IE, it worked fine

but now Firefox also stops workin, but I can still connect to Steam and play on the servers, I can also talk on MsN

So im thinking it must be a new Virus or something, but all the scanners cant find anything

So any help would be nice

Thanks for your time! ;)

[smilinjack]

Had the same problem exactly....................just fixed it abt 45 minutes ago by down loading ZONE ALARM Security Suite....it still working ok....

from: smilinjack 7/29/04.

[smilinjack]

I am behind a switch and a cable modem, and sometimes this happens to me, too. I actually have to go into my Linksys switch control panel, and renew my cable modem's IP address, and suddenly it all works again. No idea why - I'm sure it's because I probably have something misconfigured. Are you on dial-up? DSL? Cable?

Just fixed mine by loading ZONE ALARM SECURITY Suit.......it's working great.

[MrXCLNC]

For the people who fixed it by downloading Zone Alarm, do you actually know what was wrong? I started noticing this problem after doing one of the latest Windows Update for a security hole in Internet Explorer. It does not happen on my PC running Windows 2000. But both of the XP machines are effected after about 15 minutes.

[techahbeng]

For the people who fixed it by downloading Zone Alarm, do you actually know what was wrong?

There are infected machines on the Internet that will attempt to compromise your system via the various exploit on Microsoft OSs, namely Windows 2000 and XP.

The code of the worm were badly written, thus causing reboots on Windows XP but not Windows 2000 machines. That doesn't mean that the 2000 machines are not infected but rather the worm runs properly on it.

By installing Zone Alarm, common ports that these worms attack (port 445) are closed thus you do not get the rebooting.

You should still patch your system thorough through Windows Update.

[steelman]

i finally gave up and reformatted my hard drive, and of course the problem went away.

[saliva]

people, exactly which virus are you referring to??? and if so, which exploit? perhaps if you know these info, there just might be a patch as well, no? it seems that speculation wouldn't solve the problem. As for ZoneAlarm, why don't you share the log file...and the HijackThis log as well

[DMR]

...and the HijackThis log as well

Pleasedo not advise people to post HJT logs or other virus/spyware/security- related info in this forum. All posts/questions of that sort need to be posted in our Security forum.

Thanks.

[theWolf]

I'm having some IE problems. I can only view web pages on IE for 10 minutes when my computer first boots up, after that, I cannot display any pages. I have Internet connectivity, I can ping sites and use instant messenger, however no web pages will load. Any thoughts???

I was having the exact same problem, and found a solution. My solution worked on a machine running Windows XP Pro, SP2.

The culprit was a malware trojan which had installed itself as winlogon32.exe in the \system32 directory. I became suspicious when I saw the program asking ZoneAlarm for server rights, in the middle of my internet browsing session.

The solution is to prevent the program from starting up with windows. If you are infected, this program will be called from the registry to start with windows. I disabled it by using a free startup manager called CodeStuff Starter and unchecking all references to the program (in my case, it was being called 3 times!). Then reboot, and you should be good to go.

I have read that particular trojan can also go by several other names, so in your case it might not be winlogon32.exe. Oh, by the way, running AdAware and Spybot did not find this trojan, so until they update it, you've got to make the repair manually as I described.

Hope this works for you, I know it is a frustrating problem.

-theWolf

[algue]

Now I'm having the same problem, too.
I'm going to try to follow your instructions, Wolf

[ma_noj]

all these are caused by algs.exe not "alg.exe" which is a program which stops your internet
after working for 5 min & starts sending some sync requests to un known IP.

if you see this

Download Hiren'sBootCD9.1 from the internet make a CD from the downloded image

(http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-cDFWKscyc6MYbBtOJtLtLVeaVQ--?cq=1&tag=hiren'sbootcd9.0inclkeyboardpatch)
or find on the Google you can get this URL.

run the CD on the effected PC select the "CCleaner" from the auto run
this will open a program window

or download CCleaner & EzPCFix from the net if it is available seperately on the internet

select CCleaner & Click "Run Cleaner" click "yes" next it displays the list of things
with the select option & every thing unwanted will be erased.

next select the "Issues" from the "CCleaner" window click on "Scan for Issues"
by default all the list of things displayed below will be selected then click on
"Fix selected issues... then in the pop up window click "No"then in the next window
click the button with Fix All Selected Issues this will clear most of the issues.

next select the "Tools" from the "CCleaner" window check if you have any un wanted program
which is not displayed in the add remove prograns you can remove them from here.

then close this CCleaner

Click on the EzPCFix from the auto run Program window

Click the "Load Hives" from the Ez-Pc-Fix window once loded.

do not select users on the left side select the Registry Keys and
double click this and you will find the "algs.exe" select this and click on Remove items.
then close the Registry Key window.

select and double click the "Service" select and remove any unwanted programs.

Thats it now you can connect to the internet without any problem or limits

regards

manoj

[The Dude]

Welcome to Daniweb!

I have always wondered what this "ALG.EXE" is (Sounds like spyware)

So what happens if you "End task" on it?? (No network?)