Manual entry of URLs

I fixed a problem with IE 6 that had been infected with the CoolWebSearch trojan. Now the user has to type in the full url

i.e. http://www.windowsbbs.com....

Normally, you don't have to insert the http://, windows will insert that for you. What's happened here ... any ideas.

The good news is that CoolWebSearch is gone.

Thanks for any help

 

OldBob--Same problem. Not sure if there was a solution
http://discussions.virtualdr.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=165066&highlight=http//

 

That did take me to the answer. the registry entry for www was empty. It should have been http://

Thanks a bunch

 

OldBob--Thanks so much for posting back. Always good to hear a suggestion helped.