can't get to any web pages

Working on a friend's computer with Win98, reinstalled OS
due to other problems. Can hook up to dial-up, but
can't
get any page to display. The title of any box is "No
page to display - Microsoft Internet Explorer" and the
message is "Internet Explorer was unable to link to the
Web page you requested. The page might be temporarily
unavailable." This guy had a lot of junk in
background,
such as bridge.dll and I want to get ad-aware on his
computer, but I can't get to any websites. Any ideas??
Should I try to reinstall IE from his CD? Thanks.

If you have access to the web through another PC and it
has a CD Burner. Go to the sites needed and save programs
to a CD. Get a firewall also. Then go back to the one you
are working on and download the programs via the CD. You
need to order the Critical update CD from MS. For future
use as this. Also a CD with a basic free
firewall,AdAware,AVG and Spybot on it would help also.
I have noticed the same problem useing the IE version
that comes with 98SE. Once you get the upgrade to IE6 or 5
you will probly not have this problem. But it usually
worked to get to Windows update site.
-----Original Message-----
Working on a friend's computer with Win98, reinstalled OS
due to other problems. Can hook up to dial-up, but
can't
get any page to display. The title of any box is "No
page to display - Microsoft Internet Explorer" and the
message is "Internet Explorer was unable to link to the
Web page you requested. The page might be temporarily
unavailable." This guy had a lot of junk in
background,
such as bridge.dll and I want to get ad-aware on his
computer, but I can't get to any websites. Any ideas??
Should I try to reinstall IE from his CD? Thanks.

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