Posted on 12/18/2006 7:17:05 PM PST by Ex-Wretch
Not understanding much about computers, I have been getting lots of "The page cannot be displayed" messages when I go clicking. This is a relatively new problem. Also, it seems like everything takes much longer to come up online and pages don't always fill completely. Bottom line is "Cannot find server or DNS Error Internet Explorer".
I am using IE7 but am having similar problems using Firefox2. My cable modem checks out. I have deleted temporary files and cookies often. Still, I am getting frustrated by the slow and erratic performance.
Any suggestions? Thanks for your help.
I don't disagree, but disabling it temporarily might work, and if it does we will know that NIS is the problem. Also, this can be done very quickly.
If the problem comes back, then it's most likely rogue spyware on your PC. A lot of spyware runs in the background and starts up when your machine starts up, so you may not see its effects until after you've been online and surfed around and opened several screens, over a period of 5-10 minutes.
If the problem is still there, let me know.
By the way, you said above that you have both Norton Internet Security and Norton Systemworks installed. Both of those programs include Norton Antivirus. I hope you only have one version of NAV running. The installer program should handle that automatically, but I don't much trust Symantec these days.
Hallelujah!!!
I've been back online now for about 20 minutes going up and down my favorites list and not a single DNS Error message yet!
Thank you all sooooo very much for your help and, especially your advice jdm.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I can't tell you what a pleasure it is to surf uninterrupted again! :)
Happy to help -- you're very welcome. Do keep an eye on it, though. I'll be around later today if something strange happens again.
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