IE hang using search engines

[pmavphucas]

My IE hangs when I use any search engine. After hitting "go" or "search" it goes into a not responfing state for 30 seconds and the blinks to life. My IE version is 6.0.2800.1100.xpsp2 SP1. Any help would be appreciated since I haven't been ablr to find any maintenance or updates that fix it.

[sirace1]

some firewall will block traffic you would rather allow during your internet searches. Do a quick test by disabling your Windows XP built-in firewall and retest your search engines.

Click Start
Click Control Panel
Click Network Connection
Right click on your ISP Provider
Select Properties
Click Advanced Tab
Under Internet Connection Firewall
Remove Check mark " Protect my computer and network by limiting or preventing acesss to this computer for the internet."
Click Ok

Return to the internet and retest one of your search engines
If this works then you can probably replace this firewall with another one such as zone alarm..

If the problem still exist after making this change just follow
the instructions above to re-enable your windows xp firewall once again.

This is a shot in the dark.. It may or may not work. It won't harm anything since it is a quick test.

Just a thought...

[pmavphucas]

That didn't work but thanks for the suggestion.

Any other ideas out there?

[Miz]

Do you have more than one firewall running? If so, disable one and see if things improve.

Do you have an anti-virus program running? If so, disable it temporarily and see what happens. If that solves the problem, poke around in the AV program's settings/options/preferences (whatever they call it) to see if there's a way to tweak it.

Finally, if you haven't already, download, install, immediately update and then run Spybot and/or Ad-Aware. Read the help files to familiarize yourself with how they work. I recommend you use them both since each tends to find things the other misses. Let them clean up any spyware found.

Then, to be doubly sure, download and run CWShredder.

[pmavphucas]

I had already tried everything you have here except I don't have CWShredder. I'll download that and see if that helps.

Thanks.

[idfubar]

I have posted my experiences with this exact problem here:

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...be655ebaeb0cb4

I have still not come up with a solution; anyone have the time to help?