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About 4 months ago, I started having DNS problems where IE would bring up pages from sites I had previoulsy visited, not from the address I put in. Also, banners from other sites would appear mixed with the site I was visiting, and sometimes I couldn't reach the site I was aiming for at all. No matter how many times I would type an address in, it would take me to a site I had visited previously. I also get page not found errors.
I formated my system(for this, amoung other things) and the problem went away. Recently, it has started occuring again. The reason I believe it is the pop-up blocker, is that both times, the problems started occuring when over 700 popups were blocked. I have played around with turning this feature off, and the problem goes away.
Some other background, I am running win2k, I am on a small office network, and the problem never occurs with other computers(they do not have the google toolbar). Also, I have tried flushing the local DNS cache and turning DNS caching off completly and having no change. I have also tried several DNS servers. So, anyone else experience this, or am I nuts?
It happens intermittently, so I haven't been able to narrow it down. But it did start after I installed the google toolbar (and the number of popups I've blocked is over 700).
weird...
Do you get a completly different webpage from the one you are aiming for?
I should also mention, it does not happen all the time. Some days I can go without it occuring, but on days with heavy webuse, I notice it more.
It's reasuring to hear that someone else may be having this problem. Maybe I'm not going nuts.
Or maybe I am . . .
If I wait a few seconds/few minutes, I can reload the page and it works fine.
