Hi all, this is my first post and as such I'd like to say a sunny hello to all forum members. I'm from sunny Scarborough (it's just too hot for me today though) in good old Blighty....anyway enough of that.
The reason I posted was because: 1. I can't seem to update my copy of Internet Explorer 5 or 5.5 (not sure which one it is off hand) to at least version 6 and therefore I can't d/l a lot of the applications I'd like to. Whenever I try to install the IE 6 setup (I
can d/l IE 6 btw it just wont install) I get this message:
Setup was unable to connect to the Microsoft download site or your system administrator's download server to retrieve the instruction file for the Setup program. This could be caused by proxy server settings on your computer that are not valid, a busy Internet, or other problems with your current Web browser.
Using your current browser, you should confirm that you can connect to the Internet by trying to connect to http://www.microsoft.com/ or your system administrator's download server.
After following the message above I can connect to the URL they suggest but I've no idea what the system administrator's download server is anyway or my proxy server settings
plus I've tried many times and surely the net can't be busy everytime I try. Any ideas anyone please
I'm thinking this may also be the reason I can't update avast? When I try to update I get:
Info about current update, last encountered error: Cannot connect to download 58.avast.com [Unknown 80]
The other thing is that mainly today but also yesterday I started getting this pop-up from avast at the bottom of my screen in red, blue and yellow:
DCOM Exploit keeps being blocked. Attack from 81.178.227.238.174 or 175 (it changes) tcp
Does anyone know what this is all about. Is it something dangerous or something that I should be worried about?
Thanks a lot (in anticipation) and my apologies for hitting you all with so many questions wrapped up in one deceiving thread title