FTP sites in IE6 not working

J

Just mee

I had my primary master harddrive fail, and last week I had to
reinstall Windows XP with SP1 on a new PM harddrive. After I installed
XP, I installed *all* the "critical updates" from windows update,
(and most of the "recommended updates")..

I now find that FTP access via IE6 is not working.. I do not get any
specific error messages, (other than if I wait long enough (quite a
long time, at least 5-10 minutes), the request will time out, and I
get the generic "cannot find server - page cannot be found" page
...

As far as I can tell, IE is not even looking on the net for the
requested FTP addresses, but just more or less sitting there (there
is no modem activity after requesting an FTP site)...

My "about" page on IE6 shows the following:

*********************************
Version: 6.0.2800.1106.xpsp2.030422-1633
Cipher Strength 128 bit
Product ID <ID number here>
Update Versions:; SP1; Q330994; Q828750; Q837009; Q832894; Q831167
**********************************
This problem seems to apply to all FTP sites, happening with every
single FTP site I have tried to access..

I checked some of these sites with Getright's browser, and it can find
the sites fine...

Any ideas?

JM

(sorry if this post is duplicated, the first instance is not showing
up on my server)
 
J

Just mee

That is not at all recommended.
I don't care for viruses, and the firewall is very necesssary.
The firewall has nothing to do with this problem, as I had it running
before, and had no problem with ftp sites.

JM
 
S

Stardust

hi,

Have you let the FTP traffic to through the XP firewall, I think what you
have done in the past is allowing FTP traffic. But since this is a new
install maybe you forgot to re-enable the option?

Hope this helps.
Paul
 
L

Lester Stiefel

I had my primary master harddrive fail, and last week I had to
reinstall Windows XP with SP1 on a new PM harddrive. After I installed
XP, I installed *all* the "critical updates" from windows update,
(and most of the "recommended updates")..

I now find that FTP access via IE6 is not working.. I do not get any
specific error messages, (other than if I wait long enough (quite a
long time, at least 5-10 minutes), the request will time out, and I
get the generic "cannot find server - page cannot be found" page
..

As far as I can tell, IE is not even looking on the net for the
requested FTP addresses, but just more or less sitting there (there
is no modem activity after requesting an FTP site)...

My "about" page on IE6 shows the following:

*********************************
Version: 6.0.2800.1106.xpsp2.030422-1633
Cipher Strength 128 bit
Product ID <ID number here>
Update Versions:; SP1; Q330994; Q828750; Q837009; Q832894; Q831167
**********************************
This problem seems to apply to all FTP sites, happening with every
single FTP site I have tried to access..

I checked some of these sites with Getright's browser, and it can find
the sites fine...

Any ideas?

JM

(sorry if this post is duplicated, the first instance is not showing
up on my server)

Sounds like you may have a bug. Even with the internal FW
on I had 3 viruses, a worm , and a trojan planted on my
system. So I manually dl'd the uodates from the catalog and
reinstalled the system complete with all known updates from
a local drive. Then I reinstalled the FW - AV program from
local. Went online and uodated and all was fine.

Lester
 
J

JustMee

I do not have any virus, spyware or malware on the computer..

My resident, up-to-date AV and Panda Online AV both say no virus
found.

Spybot 1.3 and AdAware 6 both show no spyware or other malware found.

This is a fresh install of XP (only about 7 days old), and it has
always been protected by up to date AV and a firewall.

Thanks for the suggestion.

JM
 
J

JustMee

Well, slap me silly... I enabled the "passive FTP" option in IE's
advanced tab, and it looks like things are working fine..

Thanks a million,

JM
 

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