Have had MANY issues in the last couple of weeks with windows ME. Mainly IE...Found this thing on the zone alarm program approval page. Searched it out and it is  some kind of spyware. When ever I go online, I have to go into the internet options and reset the settings, on the connections tab. Or I get the white page of death. It gives me the cannot find server/DNS error message. Is this thing causing this? Can't really find anything of value about it on the net...
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Spy-Ware D/load ccleaner ewido Adaware.\n\nHope this helps, all are free and very good.\n\nGood Luck.
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Windows ME is a sort of a mutant hybrid of Windows 3.1 and Windows NT/2000/XP.  Windows ME is the last of the Windows 95/98/ME line.\n\nIt is sort of like one of those aliens you see in 1950s/1960s shows.  The ones with the really huge heads, and the weak, skinny, spindly bodies.\n\nWhat you are describing is probably caused by the reason why Windows ME was the end of the line.\n\nWindows 95, 98, and ME all suffer from the severe historic design flaw of MS-Windows 1, 2, 3.0, and 3.1.  Someone at Microsoft once decided that all GUI related information for ALL programs currently running INCLUDING the OPERATING SYSTEM should use the same tiny 64 KB segment of memory for ALL of their GUI related information.\n\nThis turned out to be a really bad idea.  What it wound up meaning is that computers with 192 MB of memory, had this limitation of a tiny fraction of that for their GUI data (colors, brushes, fonts, labels, text fields, drop-downs, windows, window titles, scrollbars - everything you see on the screen).\n\nMy Windows 98 PC crashed the first hour I had it.  It crashed about 4 times in the first couple hours I had it. It was a crashaholic.\n\nThere are a bunch of things you can do to alleviate the problem, with varying degrees of rashness.  Doing nothing is probably the most rash act of all.\n\n1.Limp along without improving your system.\na.) Only run one program at a time, keep desktop windows close (they consume these GUI resources too), instead of keeping your icons directly on the desktop keep them in a folder (keep Recycling Bin, MSN icon, and Explorer on the desktop or Windows will eat itself and die).\nb.) Make sure you reboot your computer every week, since Windows 98 software "leaks".\nc) Never leave your computer running for a couple months, because ever 47.9 days or so - it will lock up.  Why?  Well, because it is programmed to do that!  Yup, it has a timer in it and it will always crash after the same amount of time, assuming something else has not already caused it to crash.  Microsoft claimed as it went on sale that it was their "most tested operating system ever".  Which demonstrates they never got any of their previous operating systems to run that long, or simply ignored the anomaly of system crashes during testing.  Which is....  pretty hard to believe.  One tends to notice a hard system crash. Not sure if this bug was left in ME from 98 but I would be cautious about it.\nd.) always keep a gigabyte or so of hard disk space free.  The OS needs to store a bunch of temporary files on the hard disk, as well as swap space which it will use for virtual memory.\n\n2. Upgrade RAM\na.) buying more RAM for a PC will help quite a bit. Windows programs in 9X/ME had quite a reputation for leaking RAM.  The OS could not always get it back again.\nb.) make sure you get precisely the exact type of RAM that runs at least as fast as your computer manufacturer recommends for your computer.\n\n3. Upgrade to Linux\na.) Linux programmers were trained at some of the best universities in the world. They know how to write good operating systems because they were born to do it and it is their passion. So is making sure you can get it for free, something anyone can afford.\nb.) Some enterprise Linux distributions cost money, of course, and they come with support from the vendor. There are many, many good distributions that cost nothing, which you can legally download from the Internet, burn to a CD-R, and boot up an installer for. You can find some technical support for Linux from people like yourselves, and like the creators of Linux, online.  They are at websites, IRC rooms, newsgroups, and maybe even have a user group near where you live.\n\nBy the way, I once went in person to see Bill Gates give a speech in Washington, D.C.  One of the things he claimed is there would never be a version of Windows based on the Windows 95 code base.  This was around 1996.  He specifically added, for clarification, for example th
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If you trust the page you're visiting, don't cancel the installation.  It means that page needs the ActiveX control to show properly.  If it's installed and running, the message shouldn't pop up the next time.\n\nIf the page can't be trusted, don't visit it again.
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i recently had the same problem after i upgraded to a dual core CPU with xp.\n\ncheck with nvidia and make sure you are using the proper drivers, last i checked they didnt have any for drivers for windows ME\n\nthings i tried that didn't work for me but may work for you\n\na higher wattage power supply... check this one by picking one up at b buy or something, install it, if it works great, if not you may return it.\nalso read the documentation or look up on line whether or not your graphics card needs to have a power cord plugged into it.\n\nrun memtest x86 to check your ram isn't bad. just type memtest into your search engine\n\ntry resetting your cmos and reconfiguring your bios\ni dont know what will work for you sounds like a pretty old computer.\n\nwhat eventually ended up working for me.\n\n i had to unseat my pci cards one by one (turn off you computer and unplug it first) till the problem went away. the culprit in my case was my TV tuner card. still waiting to hear from hauppage (1 week and counting...) \n\nhope this helps\n\nif not like you may hear from allot of ppl "sleep mode is mostly only for laptops..." or "try hibernate instead" but if your like me \ntrying! :)
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you probaly need to remove and reinstall all your network components, like tcp/ip, adapters, etc. then if you still get it try going here you might find it there, they have a lot of fixes\nhttp://aumha.org/win4/kbefe.php\n\nand you might find it here\nhttp://support.microsoft.com/search/default.aspx?query=fatal+exception+occurred+in+0028%3A0000000009+in+VxD---+called+from+0028%3Ac001c30c+in+VxD+NDIS%2801%29%2B00004620&catalog=LCID%3D1033&pwt=false&title=false&kt=PHRASE&mdt=0&comm=1&ast=1&ast=2&ast=3&mode=a&spid=1139&x=14&y=6\nyou just have to keep searching, or reinstall windows 98se, if it is a windows problem, that should straighten it out if all else fail, you can just install it over the one you have, you won't lose anything. You really should upgrade to at least ME, or XP, cause there are a lot of things that are weird to 98 anymore
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I got same message on one machine.\nThat computer had virus, DSL internet connection and browser settings were also messed up.\nIf you are using internet explorer, you can restore the default settings, specially under tool, internet options,connections,LAN settings toggle with automatically detect settings.
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I'm guessing you have XP and you have Service Pack 2. SP2 contains lots of security addons and has it's own firewall.\n\nTo view right click My Computer and select properties\n\nif you turn off your firewall there it may help but of course a firewall is there to stop nasty's....\n\nIt could be a codec issue, go to google and enter all in one codec. It will bring you up a site where you can download the codec. Install that and should help.
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That information should be kept on the server and not the local machine.  So it does not matter.  Just reinstall.\n\nHope this helps and GL :-)
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Is this a work or school PC?  Sounds like they are blocking it with a Group Policy Object (GPO) from the network.\n\nWhat are you trying to run?  Sometimes if you go into Help files on certain applications (like Windows XP), there is a backdoor to the command line.
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There is a yellow symbol in your tray that looks like a badge and that symbol is part of Microsoft platform.  It will show in the tray as yellow when there is a critical update if you have auto updates checked off for Microsoft.  It will turn red if you have turned off any of your security. \n\nIf you are talking about a different box saying "Windows Installer", you have a virus in your system.  \n\nHope that you use an antivirus program.  If so run the program and see if it will go away.  If not "restore your system".\n\nIf you have no antivirus at all, you can download an excellent free antivirus program from http://www.avast.com  They are out of Prague.  And they have an excellent background scanner that really works and would catch any virus embedded in a webpage in real time and destroy it before the virus can enter your system.  Plus you get auto updates two or three times per day. \n\nThis program for sure will remove the virus you have described.\n\nJust remember that you can only run one antivirus program, or you wil have serious conflict with your system.  You can run three or four antispyware programs without any conflict. \n\nI use this progam an never had one virus in over nine years. \n\nSome one suggested you use SpyBot Search & Destroy.  The owner is a personal friend out of Germany.  Friend or no friend I would not use this antispyware program.  Not because he and his students in their University designed the program, because it finds nothing but a few cookies and always "NOS".   Plus the scanner likes to freeze up on you.     \n\nClinical Psychiatrist, France.
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I just want to clear some doubts about your question.\n\n1) If you have a windows domain, there must be a DNS server. It may be an Active directory integrated DNS or a Stand Alone DNS. So check all servers wheather they have DNS.\n\n2) If all the other servers dont have any issue with logging in, then how can you say that this issue will be solved by configuring an additional DNS. \n\n3) No need for a confusion about the IP used for DNS. It must be a priviate IP not the IP of the ISP. The DNS inside your lan is used for resolving your local addresses. The DNS address specified in the ethernet card of the ISP is for resolving the website addrsses to ips while browsing. \n\nI dont think that placing a DNS will solve the issue. Check the DNS address entered in the Problamatic Server. If that entry is wrong, it may cause a delay. Check wheather any service is causing any errors in startup.\n\nAny help, just shout.\n\nShaba!
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I don't know why this happens but I used to get the same notice long before I started using the Yahoo sites. I found that if I quickly unchecked the little box that says "microsoft will restart your computer" and then clicked the x in the corner of the box, nothing would happen and I could continue on. You have to be fast! I think it must be a virus though because I upgraded my security service, downloaded Spybot Search & Destroy and Adaware from Lava Soft along with Yahoo's Anti-Spy which got rid of a lot of spyware, malware and viruses, and I haven't had the problem since.
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It could theoretically be a virus. Or a spyware program. Run your antivirus and anti-spyware software just to double check.\n\nBut if it says "Can't find server," that could be a connection problem. If you are on dial-up, logoff and try again. If you have broadband, shut off your PC, modem, router, etc., and turn them back on after 30 seconds or so.
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I have been having this problem over the last 3 days, and from what I can tell it has something to do with the latest windows updates conflicting with a driver on my system. If I restore to 3 days ago the problem goes away, but if I then update my computer from Microsoft the hang comes back. I am not having this problem on any of my other updated computers just this one.\nI have run it in IE6, IE7 and Firefox and the problem is the same. Still working on the problem if I work out what it is I will let you know here.\nUpdate \nI think I have found a solution, download and run the program called HijackThis that can be found here http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/htlog...  You will arrive at the tutorial page, once you run the program you are looking for any program that you don't recognise, remember to create a restore point before you do anything and fix the problems one at a time, the problem and solution can be found there.
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Yes, I did, about 2 weeks ago. Just uninstalled it today.  Pages take forever, or won't load at all. Get error messages, and it closes itself.  Back to Internet Explorer.
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Appears to be an error of some kind, but without knowing what software you are running, how it appears, and what the entire message is, it is hard to guess.\n\nIf you are concerned, make sure you run a virus check and a spyware check on your computer to be sure it is clean.\n\nIf you need a virus scanner, download either AVG or Avast from download.com for free.\n\nIf you need an antispyware scanner, download Ad-Aware and Skybot Seek and Destroy,  Again free at download.com.  Run one week and the other next.  Since their lists of what is concidered "spyware" varies, one may get something the other misses.
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Shut down Zonealarm. It thinks your software is a virus.\nShut it down, reload the needed software, then turn it back on. That should work but if not call Zonealarm support