Re: Cannot access secure sites
From: wojo (kwoyach[SPAM)
Date: 03/28/04
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Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:30:16 GMT
"Sam" <srs2_11NOT@hotmailNOT.com> wrote in message
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> My wife's computer's MSIE has all of a sudden started doing strange
> things.
> When she accesses a secure site with a login, no login box appears. There
> are other sites she can't access at all. We just tried Windows update and
> it won't let her do the update, even though we can see some items that
> need
> to be done.
>
> This is what we've done so far. Checked for viruses (full disk scan).
> Checked for adware using both AdAware and SpyBot. Checked to be sure that
> the security settings within Internet Explorer were set to Medium and that
> the security settings were set correctly in Tools/Advanced/Security. We've
> emptied the Internet Explorer Temporary Internet Files. Finally when none
> of this helped, we did a repair installation of Windows. Still no luck.
>
> What are we missing here?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Sam
This may sound stupid but are you running a pop-up stopper?
Sometimes some pop-up stoppers will stop the security dialog box from coming
up.
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