Gobbledy Gook on Internet Explorer

'I get Gobbledy Gook when I tried to get on the Internet' This is exactly what the user said, happens when he launches up Internet Explorer and the Home Page opens up. A screenshot sums up precisely what I mean.

Surprisingly enough it was happening to the home page, set as http://uk.msn.com/, and a few other URL's that we tried, but not for all web page addresses or URL's!!

To start off, I checked that the coding was incorrect (under View>encoding) which it was as only some sites seemed to have been effected. I deleted all Temporary Internet files, and as this had no effect either I suspected there was a virus, and therefore immediately ran McAfee. It turned out that there was a Trojan and had effected server2.exe. Moreover the Antivirus was unable to clean the Trojan but had moved it. I than tried to launch Internet Explorer but ran into the same issue again. Had a look on the Internet and a few forums but couldn't find much. I also ran a Scan disk on start up, which didn't seem to have any effect either.

Luckily the user was running XP, and so I decided to attempt to run system restore to fix this issue. Having gone back a week in time for the restore point, I was quite impressed with System Restore as it rectified this problem!!

Following this I instantly ran a Virus update and a Windows update.