My address bar dropdown

My address bar doesn't display any history when I press the down arrow. It
was working yesterday, so I tried to do system restore to correct the
problem, but every bolded date I tried returned a message that the system
could not be restored. Are the problems related? Help!
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Sandra

Are you running anti-virus and spyware/malware apps?
Looks like you got hijacked.
Ad-Aware SE Personal Edition - Download Free version and Run It!
http://www.download.com/3000-2144-10...age&tag=button

Spybot - Search & Destroy Free Download
http://www.safer-networking.org/inde...&page=download
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XP - WNP
Today is the first day of the
rest of your life.

Thanks for the help. We are running Ad-Aware as well as Norton Anti-Virus.
What does "hijacked" mean? Would that have caused both the system restore and
address bar drop-down problems?
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Sandra

It doesn't happen often, but unfortunately System Restore points sometimes
get corrupted. When that happens, all you can do is turn it off and then
back on again. That causes the loss of existing restore points, but they are
no good anyway.

There's very good info about System Restore here:
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/description.html

Probably not.

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
Please reply to the newsgroup

It can and Ad-Aware won't catch everything. Run Spybot S & D, too.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
Reply in newsgroup
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve
neither liberty or security"

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1 31st October 19:11 sb mull External User Posts: 1	My address bar dropdown My address bar doesn't display any history when I press the down arrow. It was working yesterday, so I tried to do system restore to correct the problem, but every bolded date I tried returned a message that the system could not be restored. Are the problems related? Help! -- Sandra

2 31st October 19:11 byte External User Posts: 1	My address bar dropdown Are you running anti-virus and spyware/malware apps? Looks like you got hijacked. Ad-Aware SE Personal Edition - Download Free version and Run It! http://www.download.com/3000-2144-10...age&tag=button Spybot - Search & Destroy Free Download http://www.safer-networking.org/inde...&page=download -- XP - WNP Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

3 10th November 03:10 sb mull External User Posts: 1	My address bar dropdown Thanks for the help. We are running Ad-Aware as well as Norton Anti-Virus. What does "hijacked" mean? Would that have caused both the system restore and address bar drop-down problems? -- Sandra

5 19th November 14:17 frank saunders, ms-mvp oe External User Posts: 1	My address bar dropdown It can and Ad-Aware won't catch everything. Run Spybot S & D, too. -- Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM Reply in newsgroup "They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security"