Re: Cannot access secure sites
From: Sam (srs2_11NOT_at_hotmailNOT.com)
Date: 03/30/04
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 09:50:09 -0800
Sometime on, or about Sun, 28 Mar 2004 14:16:48 -0800, Sam scribbled:
> 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
We finally gave up and totally re-installed Windows... it now works
perfectly. I find that I usually have to do that about once a year on my
machine... after 12 months of installing and uninstalling software, adding
patches and everything else, Windows just starts to get real weird.
I don't think it has to do with "viruses"... we both run the latest
iteration of Norton AntiVirus (updated constantly), we're behind a router
with NAT, and we run Norton Personal Firewall as well. Neither of us use
Outlook or Outlook Express for email and we know better than to open
executable attachments.
I personally think that a lot of software is written poorly. They also have
un-installer programs that do not clean up after themselves very well. I
use a registry scanner to find all the bits and pieces they leave behind.
<sigh>
Sam
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