Browser Problem
 

This has been happening for awhile now but its gotten worse lately. I use internet explorer for the majority of my internet browsing and my homepage is set to hotmail. Frequently when I open my browser it'll connect to 65.54.186.79 and get stuck there like it searching and trying to open the page. I have to close and reopen my browser about 3 or 4 times before it'll actually load up. This is only happening with my internet explorer. I typed in 65.54.186.79 in the address bar and it brings up hotmail. Anyone have any ideas whats going on or how to fix it?

Try resetting IE ...

Tools > Internet Options > Last Tab (Don't remember what it's called) > Reset

try clearing your cookies and cache (you'll have to login to all your websites again)

disable auto connection detect: (internet options -> connections -> LAN settings -> "automatically detect settings"

Also do a spyware scan...it's possible your browser got hijacked by malware.

or just give up on IE and use a REAL browser

I tried the resetting and but its still happening. Just not as often I'll see that disablign auto connection does. Thanks for the input guys.

and yeah I already did a spyware scan cuz I thought my browser was getting hijacked but nothing came up

Have you tried cleaning the cache?
Tools > Internet Options > Delete

yeah I have. The resetting also deletes it but still happens every now and then

what version of IE do you have installed?
and what Anti-virus are you using?

The reason I ask is because I had a problem with IE8 taking a long time to launch the first time, and I found out it was AVG causing it.

IE7 and AVG. This was happening before I had avg as well. I used to use norton.

try out firefox, you can carry over all your cookies and favourites

yah...ie has some severe problems :) ...thats the last browser in my list to use...on win os...chrome -> safari -> firefox -> opera -> then ie...
on mac os -> safari only...

safari is pretty flawed as well, on the security front