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Can't Browse After FreshInstall
This is a Dell E510, 32 bit, which came with the OEM (Orange) "Windows
Media Center 2005 Edition with Update Rollup 2". At some point in it's life, Windows 7, and then Windows 7 Ultimate was installed (upgrades). Things went south after that, and the machine was put into storage for about a year and a half. Last night, I decided to resurect the machine, and do a fresh install of the original XP Media Center, Here's the problem. Internet Explorer 6 was installed. When launched it takes me to www.MSN.com, and I can click on the links on that page, but I have to stay within the MSN domain. If I try to go elsewhere, such as www.google.com,, I get "You are about to view pages over a secure connection...and if I hit OK, I get "The page cannot be displayed...". Using cmd.exe, I can ping yahoo, google, etc., and I get proper IPs. Also, I set up Outlook Express 6 and I can access all my email just fine. This must be a browser problem (IE 6), but I can't reach Windows Update to get it upgraded. Any way to install a browser on a USB drive and use to reach Windows Update? Other ideas? Thanks |
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Boris wrote in
09.88: This is a Dell E510, 32 bit, which came with the OEM (Orange) "Windows Media Center 2005 Edition with Update Rollup 2". At some point in it's life, Windows 7, and then Windows 7 Ultimate was installed (upgrades). Things went south after that, and the machine was put into storage for about a year and a half. Last night, I decided to resurect the machine, and do a fresh install of the original XP Media Center, Here's the problem. Internet Explorer 6 was installed. When launched it takes me to www.MSN.com, and I can click on the links on that page, but I have to stay within the MSN domain. If I try to go elsewhere, such as www.google.com,, I get "You are about to view pages over a secure connection...and if I hit OK, I get "The page cannot be displayed...". Using cmd.exe, I can ping yahoo, google, etc., and I get proper IPs. Also, I set up Outlook Express 6 and I can access all my email just fine. This must be a browser problem (IE 6), but I can't reach Windows Update to get it upgraded. Any way to install a browser on a USB drive and use to reach Windows Update? Other ideas? Thanks Aportable version of FireFox worked. I can now browse. |
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I use wsusoffline.net to grab a newer IE8 so that stuff works (necessary when
reinstalling XP - use v 9.21 for that). Probably windows 7 is under some category as well. Save it to a USB stick for for next time using a working machine. -- On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk. |
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Can't Browse After FreshInstall
Boris on 2016/12/12 wrote:
This is a Dell E510, 32 bit, which came with the OEM (Orange) "Windows Media Center 2005 Edition with Update Rollup 2". At some point in it's life, Windows 7, and then Windows 7 Ultimate was installed (upgrades). Things went south after that, and the machine was put into storage for about a year and a half. Last night, I decided to resurect the machine, and do a fresh install of the original XP Media Center, Here's the problem. Internet Explorer 6 was installed. When launched it takes me to www.MSN.com, and I can click on the links on that page, but I have to stay within the MSN domain. If I try to go elsewhere, such as www.google.com,, I get "You are about to view pages over a secure connection...and if I hit OK, I get "The page cannot be displayed...". Using cmd.exe, I can ping yahoo, google, etc., and I get proper IPs. Also, I set up Outlook Express 6 and I can access all my email just fine. This must be a browser problem (IE 6), but I can't reach Windows Update to get it upgraded. Any way to install a browser on a USB drive and use to reach Windows Update? Other ideas? What security software do you use? Some provide HTTPS web traffic interrogation to check for malicious content or blacklisted off-domain sources. To do the HTTPS web inspection means they have to perform a man-in-the-middle (MITM) scheme to intercept the encrypted traffic. To inspect the traffic means having to decode it to read it. They have to install a certificate in your local certificate store (or in the private cert store of Firefox if you use that web browser) to they can pretend to the client (web browser) that they are the endpoint to which you intended to connect while pretending to the real endpoint that they are the client. If their cert has been corrupted, expired, or revoked then it is no longer usable. You need to get their cert re-installed or get a new one if the old one expired (or somehow got revoked). This is also how companies can intercept HTTPS from their employees to deploy censorware or otherwise monitor what type of traffic their employees are generating. If you disable HTTPS scanning in your anti-virus software, if it has it, does HTTPS then work okay? Do you use a 3rd party firewall? Have you tried running IE in its safe mode which does NOT load any add-ons you installed into it? SSL/TLS connects are not using the HTTPS protocol. That's assuming you even configured your e-mail client to use SSL/TLS. Also, SSL/TLS is used only to encrypt the handshaking in which the login credentials are passed from client to server. The rest of the traffic is not encrypted hence why you need to employ seperate encryption to your messages if you don't want them intercepted. Ping, traceroute, and other such tools aren't using SSL/TLS and they are not using HTTP (to then use HTTPS). |
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