Accepting cookies yes refused access

[Michael]

I have my security/priacy setting at default and when I go to hotmail access
is refused telling me to set my browser to accept cookies. I am able to get
to login to hotmail with firefox and opera, but not IE. This is driving me
nuts.

Please help

 

[PA Bear]

IE Tools > Internet Options > Privacy > Sites > type in

hotmail.com
passport.net

and Allow Cookies for each, in turn.

 

[Michael]

Have set Allow for both as well without any positive results. I also tried
to uninstall and reinstall through add/remove programs w/o results.

Still Need help.

 

[Daniel Crichton]

Have you got any "security" or "privacy" software running that might be
deleting the cookies, or stopping them being set in the first place?

Dan

Michael wrote on Mon, 24 Apr 2006 21:58:22 -0400:

 

[Michael]

Dan,
The all I have running is Trend Micro antivirus. And if I had any-
thing running to prevent the cookies from being set would that also
prevent the cookies from being set with Opera and Firefox as well? As
I mentiond in my orginal post I have rest all my setting to default.
I have also applyed "PA Bear's" recomindation to allow cookies for the
two sites but still no luck. Could the be a setting in the
registry???? I am using win.2k sp4.

Michael

 

[Michael]

Sorry for the typing errors.
Michael

Dan,
The all I have running is Trend Micro antivirus. And if I had any-
thing running to prevent the cookies from being set would that also
prevent the cookies from being set with Opera and Firefox as well? As
I mentiond in my orginal post I have rest all my setting to default.
I have also applyed "PA Bear's" recomindation to allow cookies for the
two sites but still no luck. Could the be a setting in the
registry???? I am using win.2k sp4.

Michael

 

[PA Bear]

Have you rebooted?

Do you connect to the internet via a proxy?

 

[Daniel Crichton]

Most cookie clearing applications only clear them for IE and ignore any
other browser, as they tend not to intercept them in the HTTP stream.
Anything that might have a cookie clearing facility, or "privacy" option, is
worth checking, even Trend. Do you have any firewall software (eg.
ZoneAlarm), or do you only use the XP Firewall?

Dan

Michael wrote on Tue, 25 Apr 2006 11:23:52 -0400:

 

[Michael]

"PA Bear",
Yes I have rebooted many times.

Michael

 

[Michael]

Dan,
I have a home network using an SMC 2804WBR router with the firewall
enabled. I've had this setup for over a year w/o any problems. This
problem with IE has just started. The only thing I that I have done
recently was I use system tools to do a disk clean up. And no I do not
use XP firewall.

Michael

 

[Daniel Crichton]

Michael wrote on Wed, 26 Apr 2006 22:52:38 -0400:

Dan,
I have a home network using an SMC 2804WBR router with the firewall
enabled. I've had this setup for over a year w/o any problems. This
problem with IE has just started. The only thing I that I have done
recently was I use system tools to do a disk clean up. And no I do not
use XP firewall.

Well XP firewall wouldn't be the issue anyway - the normal source of
something like this is a 3rd party "firewall" like ZoneAlarm that includes
features that "enhance privacy", such as blocking cookies to IE.

Disk Cleanup shouldn't be an issue, because your original post indicates
that cookies are being blocked as they are being set, not being cleared up
at scheduled intervals.

As PA Bear asked, is there a proxy configuration in IE? You didn't answer
that part of his reply. It might be that even if you don't, your ISP could
have implemented a transparent proxy for HTTP connections which is dropping
cookies. Check the IE proxy settings first, then ask your ISP if there's
nothing set there.

Dan

 

[Michael]

Dan,
No I am not using any Proxy seting. I checked and connections is set
to auto. I'm going to call my ISP cablevision.

I'll post what they have to say.

Michael

 

[Michael]

This is really getting to me I can not figure this out. This is what is
displayed in the address bar of IE ver.6.0
2800.1106, cipher strength 128-bit,;
https://login.live.com/cookiesDisabled.srf?vv=400&lc=1033, I do not even get
to the login page!
I've checked and trippled checked all my setting are as they should be.

Michael

 

[Michael]

"PA Bear"
Thank you Thank you! that did it.
Now the million dollar question. What caused this? Also what resource did
you use to find this solution?

Michael

 

[Michael]

"PA Bear"
Setting live.com to a trusted site. I had tried al the other setting and
nothing worked. I don't understand why putting live.com as a trusted site
worked but it did. I had "always allow" set for those sits and I had
enabled cookies... but I still was not able to get to the login page till I
put it as a Trusted site. Go figure???

Thanks,
Michael

 

[PA Bear]

Thanks for getting back to us!
--
~PA Bear

"PA Bear"
Setting live.com to a trusted site. I had tried al the other setting and
nothing worked. I don't understand why putting live.com as a trusted site
worked but it did. I had "always allow" set for those sits and I had
enabled cookies... but I still was not able to get to the login page till
I put it as a Trusted site. Go figure???

Thanks,
Michael