Re: Cannot access secure sites

From: Rick \ (rick_at_mvps.org)
Date: 03/28/04 

Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 18:27:48 -0500

Hi Sam,

HOW TO: Troubleshoot Situations Where You Cannot Complete MSN Sign-up pr
Connect to SSL Secured (128-Bit) Web Sites by Using Internet Explorer in
Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=813444

See if the steps there help. 

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Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
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"Sam" <srs2_11NOT@hotmailNOT.com> wrote in message 
news:vh5b34vd5jun.yw55tm9dywax.dlg@40tude.net...
> 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

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