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Can no longer access secure websites
Wednesday, January 5, 2005 at 10:54 pm
Posted by Woodog (1 messages posted)

I've been at this for Problem for three solid days and ITS MY BIRTHDAY to boot. HELP PLEASE!!! Windows ME user and can no longer access secure websites -online banking etc.. "Page cannot be displayed" message only. Secure site padlock in lower r/h corner looks different ("cheesie?")than usual. Can't repair IE6, and can't reset IE6 to default settings. AOL auto fix tells me that "due to changes in the application or windows environment, auto fix will now quit" when I try to have it repair the AOL browser. The tech support at AOL was at a loss. IE6 cannot seem to repair its installation. I have tried the common things on this forum- read and accomplished the suggested first steps, also did the settings to IE defaults, ssl 2.0 & 3.0 checked, Spybot, cwshredder,ad-aware, McAffee run and the crap was deleted. Ran hijack this and I see a couple suspicious items. Afraid to mess w/ my registry unless someone with THE KNOWLEGE tells me what to mess with. If someone could help me w/ this, I would sure appreciate this. (B-Day Present? ). I'm an airplane technician so please don't assume I will always know the obvious computer stuff. Thanks. P.S. how can I tell if port 443 is allowed? I'm using McAffee firewall.

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re: Can no longer access secure websites
Wednesday, January 5, 2005 at 11:38 pm
Posted by Jack Gulley (5917 messages posted)

Update your Ad-Aware and Spybot programs and run them again to make sure any problems that they are finding have not come back. Run System Tools - Disk CleanUp once. Then look in your C:\Windows folder and see if you have a HOSTS file (no extension). If it exists, open it with NotePad and see if any of the sites you are having trouble reaching are listed there. If they are, you may have a different version of the CWS browser Hijacker and should try About:Buster V4.

Then after rebooting, run HijackThis again and post its log into the web page at Help2Go Detective web page and follow any instructions it provides.

If that does not resolve your problems, post a clean copy of you HijackThis log and why you suspect some of the entries. Also, be a little more specific on what happens when you try to Repair IE through the Add/Remove Programs entry.

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