Note to Self IE is Sleeping
Apr 6, 2009 Billboards, Computer and Internet
My Avira AntiVir failed to update with the following message:
No way !
I started panicking since a beautiful program can’t just stop working like that. It’s impossible for Avira; for this is the software that really makes me feel like YES THERE IS SUCH THING AS FREE LUNCH.
Furiously, I spent about 3 hours on the Internet. Holy C!
All those forum threads with DNS hijack, virus, malware and you name it… they only started to heighten my fear. I even ran the Hijack this thing.
And I got to thinking..( Why on earth does it have to be for me, and yet again ? I know a month ago I had spent a week trying to remove some nasty malware)
What the heck is wrong, i’m thinking… Is it
- My windows firewall ?
- The Avira site itself (thinking it could be overloaded, after all it can happen; it’s so popular, right ?)
- Or has the April fool virus gone mad only on my PC ?
Then, I thought, would IE do it ? would IE be the one that is blocking my Internet connection ?
A month ago, after removing malware, and some suggestion from the Internet, I broke IE’s knee with this setting :
The port 125 could be anything except 80 which is used by the Apache.
I disabled the Proxy settings and HURRAY Avira’s update worked.
It’s always easy to blame someone. I did.
I don’t know about you,
but I’m hooked with Firefox and Google Chrome,
I won’t be using IE unless it gives me some sort of peace of mind.
It makes sense to write a note to self:
“IE is sleeping dude ! Wake up for a software update ”
You might ask me, don’t other applications also fail ?
Yes, here is one that also failed to update, but it’s fine after I make IE active.
Again : Note to Self IE is sleeping.
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September 16th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
A little knowledge is little knowledge. Disabling Internet explorer like way I did, these things also don’t work:
1. Windows Update
2. Bla Bla
Reset the proxy, do windows update then Put IE to sleep. I do this and I love it. I’m never confident about even clicking on the IE link. How about you ?
December 15th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
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