Internet Explorer 5 Time Bomb!

[reibow]

LOOK OUT FOR THE TIME BOMB POSTED BY MICROSOFT!

See my post http://206.161.202.65/forum/showthre...threadid=4706. Have been having heaps of problems browsing with IE5 and IE5.5 and it has been gradually affecting other parts of my system such as graphics.
My apologies to ZoneLabs as I thought that ZoneAlarm had caused all my problems but although it did cause some headaches it was only responding to the disaster from Bill.

After two weeks of hell on the Net (and two reinstalls of IE5 and two of IE5.5, two complete reinstalls of Win98SE and lots of other problem solving routines)I acted on a hunch and discovered that by switching to my old disused Netscape browser and disabling JAVA I could access anything except my bank account (thank God for my bank's security). I eventually got through to Microsoft Oz by phone to find out they are aware of some crappy Windows Update stuff they have been pushing out and which I downloaded in good faith.

Unfortunately the fix they gave me is the download which seems to have caused the problem in the first place so my IE5 is still the same crap after a 6MB download.

Have a look around the bulletin boards and see how many problems are occurring with IE5 and you will see what I mean.

So I challenge the Microsoft Support Team to come clean and post the solution to their Java Script or VMM problem or whatever it is before the NetBrothers close you down.

When I was Stateside I learned to say "have a good day" - maybe tomorrow (which is next day for you guys).

[Roberto]

I know that you have posted this message to help all of us to be aware of Microsoft and their buggy programs. Unfortunately, you did not mention the file name of the download that is causing you all of your problems. Perhaps if you posted it here you might help someone else to avoid the same dilemma.

[bailey]

just a guess here, but I think the file name is MICROSOFT.

[PC101]

Call me lucky, but last week was the first time I had any real problems with IE5, it just stopped loading pages, so I downloaded SP1 and all is better, BTW, I use Netscape, (I know that some of you call it Nutscrape) But I haven't had any major problems with that either. The wife uses IE5, she's got her browser, I got mine, how wonderful!

[reibow]

Sorry Roberto.
It is Microsoft VM build 3318 for Windows 95/98, Windows Me and Windows NT 4.0.
Have sent an email to Microsoft for help and if they reply will post result.

Good one Bailey.

And PC101 you did not make me feel any better boasting about your success but life was not meant to be easy.

I have gone back to Netscape but it is much slower than IE5.

Hope the new version delivers the speed of IE5.

The sun is shining it's a cool 20 degrees so I'm off to the golf course now for a different form of torture.

[PC101]

Sorry reibow,

I didn't mean to make you feel worse, IE5 is running like a charm at the moment and it may load a tad faster than netscape, but only by seconds. And it depends on the page I'm loading, but I have used Netscape for a few years and I like it just fine. Chin up! Hope your golf game went well