Can't remove Trusted Site in XP SP2

[Vernon Aldrich]

I want to remove my default domain from an XP machine that I just installed
service pack 2 on in order to determine the interaction of the domains
website with outside customers logging into the site. The problem is that
although it was easy to remove from the Trusted Sites list, the default
domain is still a Trusted Site. I know this because of the pop-up dialog that
says "the current web page is trying to open a site in your Trusted Sites
list..." when I try to login to the domain web page. I've been told that
there is a registry key to clear, but a search of the registry for the domain
name yields nothing. Maybe encrypted? Does anyone know how to completely
remove the default domain from the Trusted Sites list?
Thanks for the help.

[Kent W. England [MVP]]

Vernon Aldrich wrote the following on 16-Aug-2004 10:21 AM:

> I want to remove my default domain from an XP machine that I just installed
> service pack 2 on in order to determine the interaction of the domains
> website with outside customers logging into the site. The problem is that
> although it was easy to remove from the Trusted Sites list, the default
> domain is still a Trusted Site. I know this because of the pop-up dialog that
> says "the current web page is trying to open a site in your Trusted Sites
> list..." when I try to login to the domain web page. I've been told that
> there is a registry key to clear, but a search of the registry for the domain
> name yields nothing. Maybe encrypted? Does anyone know how to completely
> remove the default domain from the Trusted Sites list?
> Thanks for the help.

Open Internet Options control panel to the Security tab, select the
Trusted Zone and click the Sites button and remove the appropriate site.

--
Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows Security

[Vernon Aldrich]

Kent, Thanks but that is what I did to remove the Site originally and with it
removed from the "Trusted Sites" list, I then try to enter the site and get
the message that I'm about to enter a trusted site ( the one that is no
longer in the list ). I've removed the registry entry referenced in KB
article 255176 and that didn't help either -- there must be something in XP
SP2 that isn't in Win95 or Win98.
Thanks for the help. Any more ideas?

"Kent W. England [MVP]" wrote:

> Vernon Aldrich wrote the following on 16-Aug-2004 10:21 AM:
>
> > I want to remove my default domain from an XP machine that I just installed
> > service pack 2 on in order to determine the interaction of the domains
> > website with outside customers logging into the site. The problem is that
> > although it was easy to remove from the Trusted Sites list, the default
> > domain is still a Trusted Site. I know this because of the pop-up dialog that
> > says "the current web page is trying to open a site in your Trusted Sites
> > list..." when I try to login to the domain web page. I've been told that
> > there is a registry key to clear, but a search of the registry for the domain
> > name yields nothing. Maybe encrypted? Does anyone know how to completely
> > remove the default domain from the Trusted Sites list?
> > Thanks for the help.
>
> Open Internet Options control panel to the Security tab, select the
> Trusted Zone and click the Sites button and remove the appropriate site.
>
> --
> Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows Security
>

[Kent W. England [MVP]]

Vernon Aldrich wrote on 19-Aug-2004 3:23 PM:

> Kent, Thanks but that is what I did to remove the Site originally and with it
> removed from the "Trusted Sites" list, I then try to enter the site and get
> the message that I'm about to enter a trusted site ( the one that is no
> longer in the list ). I've removed the registry entry referenced in KB
> article 255176 and that didn't help either -- there must be something in XP
> SP2 that isn't in Win95 or Win98.
> Thanks for the help. Any more ideas?
>
The only idea I have is to figure out exactly what that "about to enter
a trusted site" message means. Normally, XP doesn't alert you that you
are entering a site in the Trusted Zone, you just get an icon in the
status bar. Tell us more about that message. Is it a message popup from
the web site itself? If not, is it a message that you are moving to a
secured page (https://)? If so, then it is not a trusted site, only
encrypted.

--
Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows Security

[Vernon Aldrich]

Kent,
I was entering a website that was hosted on the same domain as the machine
that I was running the browser on. I deleted the domain from the trusted
sites list, to which it was entered automatically, and then tried to enter
the domain page again. That's when I got the message that my webpage was
trying to enter a trusted site-- even though the domain was no longer listed
in the Trusted Sites list. Anyway, ultimately removing the domain name from
the following 2 keys fixed my dilemma:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Internet
Settings\ZoneMap\Domains
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Internet
Settings\ZoneMap\Domains

Thanks for helping. :-)

"Kent W. England [MVP]" wrote:

> Vernon Aldrich wrote on 19-Aug-2004 3:23 PM:
>
> > Kent, Thanks but that is what I did to remove the Site originally and with it
> > removed from the "Trusted Sites" list, I then try to enter the site and get
> > the message that I'm about to enter a trusted site ( the one that is no
> > longer in the list ). I've removed the registry entry referenced in KB
> > article 255176 and that didn't help either -- there must be something in XP
> > SP2 that isn't in Win95 or Win98.
> > Thanks for the help. Any more ideas?
> >
> The only idea I have is to figure out exactly what that "about to enter
> a trusted site" message means. Normally, XP doesn't alert you that you
> are entering a site in the Trusted Zone, you just get an icon in the
> status bar. Tell us more about that message. Is it a message popup from
> the web site itself? If not, is it a message that you are moving to a
> secured page (https://)? If so, then it is not a trusted site, only
> encrypted.
>
> --
> Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows Security
>