Internet Explorer just stopped working

Dunno if this has anything to do with it, but I unistalled yahoo messenger because it annoyed me and I hated it. Then all of a sudden I can connect to the internet, but I get this come up in IE

ERROR
The requested URL could not be retrieved

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While trying to retrieve the URL: http://www.msn.co.uk/

The following error was encountered:

Connection Failed
The system returned:

[No Error]The remote host or network may be down. Please try the request again.

Your cache administrator is webmaster.



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Generated Sun, 09 Oct 2005 18:42:33 GMT by server (squid/2.5.STABLE10)

I can't get onto any site which is a pain because I have to browse IE every so often to keep my internet connection on but I usually use firefox. I have McAfee firewall and virus protection as well everything is up to date. Any help would be very much appreciated.

:edit: now I can't get onto msn messenger either...

 

I don't believe your uninstallation of messenger has anything to do with it. You may have a browser hijacker on your system. Use a spyware cleaner like Ad-Aware or Spybot...there are free version for both, just Google them. Download another program to run called CCleaner. Use it to clean up your system and fix errors within your registry (real simple) and then restart your system. You may also want to either reinstall explorer and/or make sure you have the most recent updates for it as well.

 

thanks a lot, I shall try all of those =)

 

I tried them all and it's still not working...could it have something to do with my proxy settings? Sometimes I get an error in windows media player about my proxy settings when I try and watch a video or something online.

 

download mozilla

and see if that works

if not then i dunno