Everytime I try to open IE a message appears stating that IE has performed an illegal operation. When I close that message box another box appears with a message stating that I am restricted from from using the internet connection wizard contact the network administrator. I am running Win98 on my computer and it is not connected to any LAN.
The first thing that I would recommend is an update to
IE 6. IE 4 is no longer supported, and is so riddled with bugs and security holes as to be a danger to yourself and others.
"But," you say "I can't get on the Internet to download it!" We've got
that covered--the
AOL 9.0 disk has IE 6 on it, since 9.0 requires it. Both versions (for
Win98/ME and
Win2K/XP) are found on the CD in the
AOL9.0 directory as single executable files. I'm sure that you can dig up an AOL 9.0 disk
somewhere... heh.
Be sure to download the patches, etc. as soon as possible from
http://WindowsUpdate.Microsoft.com. Also scan for scumware.
Start by downloading
Spybot - Search & Destroy via
http://Security.Kolla.de and
Ad-Aware 6.181 (or later) via
http://www.LavaSoft.nu. Update both programs with the new reference files before doing a scan. It's not so much that you absolutely
need both as it's a good cross-check; spyware authors are sneaky.
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