Parts missing from web pages

I'm getting some very odd behaviour from MSIE6. Most pages now contain
one or more messages like this:
"Action canceled
Internet Explorer was unable to link to the Web page you"

And many GIFs etc seem to be missing, replaced with a red 'x'.

Here's an example of a page with both flaws:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1728823,00.asp

This is what I see (in the upper part of that page):
http://www.terrypin.dial.pipex.com/I...SIE6-Flaws.gif

Can anyone point me to the likely cause and a cure please?

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Terry, West Sussex, UK

Terry Pinnell wrote:

> And many GIFs etc seem to be missing, replaced with a red 'x'.

looks like a security setting is blocking the images (red x is a
common 'cannot find file' marker in IE). Using an alternative
browser (Netscape 4.x, 7.1 or Mozilla) one can view the images
alone from a right-click menu (which shows the URLs of affected
images are not on enews.com)... Using ctrl-i one gets an info
report which showed at least 20 images were held on another web
server common.ziffdavisinternet.com while a couple were ads on
doubleclick.net and some were on server-us.imrworldwide.com

Opera has some additional display facilities - you can grab all
links from a webpage in one go, for example. MS IE is left far
behind for getting info about a web page in terms of media and
links, IMO, unless there are some options hidden away :-)

> Internet Explorer was unable to link to the Web page you"

not sure about why, sorry. Peter Morgan

> I'm getting some very odd behaviour from MSIE6. Most pages now contain
> one or more messages like this:
> "Action canceled
> Internet Explorer was unable to link to the Web page you"
> And many GIFs etc seem to be missing, replaced with a red 'x'.

ISTR seeing this reported a few times - google will probably find the old
posts and the "cure" for it...

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Colin Wilson <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>> I'm getting some very odd behaviour from MSIE6. Most pages now contain
>> one or more messages like this:
>> "Action canceled
>> Internet Explorer was unable to link to the Web page you"
>> And many GIFs etc seem to be missing, replaced with a red 'x'.
>
>ISTR seeing this reported a few times - google will probably find the old
>posts and the "cure" for it...

Thanks both. I've since discovered that the cause is almost certainly
my use of a 'Hosts' file. I should have remembered. I downloaded a new
'Hosts' file in May from Mike Skallas's page
http://everythingisnt.com/hosts.html

....and forgot about it!

But now that I re-examine this 'Hosts file' business, I see that has
1092 lines. The latest version at that same page now has 32 more
entries; a file of 1124 lines (including 13 introductory comments).

After a little googling, I found an alternative at 'Blocking
Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File (winhelp)'
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
That is 5179 lines! So which is the 'best' Hosts file? Doesn't this
imply that Mike's is lean and mean, or winhelp's is overkill? I've
just install the latter, but I'm not sure whether the price I'll pay
is pages which are even more unattractive than the one that prompted
my post? (In return, of course, for far less distracting adverts and
worse.) And presumably there are more potential Hosts files out there,
which I've not yet stumbled across?

Any further advice/insight about this area would be much appreciated
please. All a bit of a black art to me...

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Terry, West Sussex, UK