"Alister" <alister.gcs********.co.uk> wrote:
news:h2n335$59i$1@news.eternal-september.org...

> What you are describing sounds like anything with html content is not
> loading the stylesheets or images correctly.
>
> This can be caused if your Internet Explorer cache is full.
>
> Try deleting your Temporary Internet Files.
>
> Also check the file version and date of hhctrl.ocx in you Windows\system32
> folder - it should be version 5.2.3790.4110 released on 03 Aug 2004
>
> Try booting into safe Mode with Networking and try to browse a few sites.
> Do the problems still occur? If not then I would suggest it may be a
> malware infection.
>
> Alister


My hhctrl.ocx file is from 4/14/2008 and version 5.2.3790.4110... Activex
Control, size 533kb. Version number corresponds but not the release date,
you think it may be a problem?... false version or not, how would I
restore-reinstall a new version? One question; If this file were the
problem, wouldn't it affect any user account?... fact is, only my everyday
user account is affected, not the administrator or a new account.


As far as the IE cache goes, I clear it regularly, and have cleared it
frequently in the last few days, again today and no improvement


Browsing in Safe Mode w/networking made no difference. Did a few scans with;
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, HijackThis, Smitfraudfix... Did a restart after
every scan. HijackThis detected HP and Akamai activex controls so I removed
them to be sure but no results. I had also done full scans with NOD32,
Malwarebytes and A-Squared Free after the problem started... so I assume the
possibility of malware infection is out of the picture


I checked file types and HTML was missconfigured, I restored it to default
(HTML Document) and did a restart, but it made no difference.


I am considering moving my files to a new account and discard this user
profile, unless you have more ideas to try


Thanks for your help