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Unusual Web error

  • 13-01-2007 4:35pm
    #1
    Archeron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,415 ✭✭✭


    Howdy all,
    Hope you might be able to help.
    I'm using Internet Explorer on Windows XP Home. Recently, I installed my Sony Ericcson softwre to allow the PC to connect with the phone, but since I've done it, I'm having trouble when online.

    My homepage is MSN search, and if I want to go to a website, say Boards.ie, I have to enter the website into MSN search in order to access it. If I just type the homepage into the address bar, I get an error saying "requested lookup key was not found in any active activation context"
    I get the same message if I click on any link from any site, or try to view an image. Basically, the only way I can change sites now is by closing IE, opening MSN search again, and typing the page I want into MSN again. As you can imagine, this really restricts movement from site to site online.
    Any advice would be welcome. Cheers


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  • #2
    Rebeller
    Closed Accounts Posts: 271 ✭✭Rebeller


    Archeron wrote:
    Howdy all,
    Hope you might be able to help.
    I'm using Internet Explorer on Windows XP Home. Recently, I installed my Sony Ericcson softwre to allow the PC to connect with the phone, but since I've done it, I'm having trouble when online.

    Ever since Sony's DRM rootkit fiasco I've steered clear of any hardware, software or music cds produced by that company. Any company that will surreptitiously install phone home spyware on a legitimate purchaser's computer leaving it open to infection by a range of internet nasties should be put out of business.

    Might be just coincidence but the fact that you are experiencing problems after having installed sony software suggests that the software might have altered your hosts file or aspects of your registry. This might explain the problem.

    It'll take someone more technically minded than me to suggest a solution I'm afraid.

    Good luck


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