I did all the steps you suggested and it still would not
work even with McAfee turned off.
I am not real happy with McAfee either. I used to have
Norton but when I installed Windows XP I could not get it
to work. (I had just bought a new CD for Norton right
before that) I forgot what errors I got when I tried to
get it running but that is a whole new set of problems.
I went to the "Hosts" (not sure if I did it right) but I
only saw the local host 127.0.0.1 - I think I could open
it some other way but was not sure how. Might need to give
the steps to doing this. I opened it with wordpad because
it would not open otherwise. I thought there was a place
where you just click a plus sign and it would open.
I double clicked on my computer, double clicked on C
drive, Windows, then System 32 then the etc folder. When I
found "Hosts" I tried to double click on it to open but it
asked me if I wanted to go to web or open it with
something else so I chose wordpad. (don't laugh)
What is a good antiVirus program?
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-----Original Message-----
There are several things that need to be checked for this.
First, There is a file in C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\Etc
called "Hosts". It translates URL's to their actual IP address.
For most common XP installs it should only have one entry.
LocalHost 127.0.0.1
You need to edit yours and examine the contents. The top
section are comments, denoted by the # character and those
you can ignore. Any other lines without the # beyond the
LocalHost you should remove.
Next, you need to check the Zone Settings for Internet
Explorer. Open IE, Click Tools, Internet Options, Security.
You'll see four Zones, you need to click on each one, it
will turn blue for Highlighted/Selected. Look below and
see if the setting grayed out is Default or Custom. If any
are at "Custom", click the Default button. In other words
all 4 should be at Default value. Finally, before leaving
Security, Highlight Trusted zone and click the Sites button.
This section should be empty. When you put a site in this,
it uses a "Low" security setting.
Next click on the Privacy Tab. Click Advanced. Place a
check in "Override automatic Cookie Handling". Then click
Accept for First Party Cookies and click Block for Third
Party Cookies. Click Ok, Ok,
Close IE and Reboot.
Now try one of your email sites, but beforehand Right Click
the McAfee icon and select "Disable", just to eliminate it
as part of your problem (Yes, I'm not a fan of McAfee
products). If you gain access, re-enable McAfee and see
if it still continues to work.
Please post back your results, as these are only the 1st steps
in getting it to work for you.
it.
I can not sign onto my hotmail, lycos or yahoo email
accounts while in regular mode on my computer. ThisI have a Dell Dimension 4100, Windows XP, Intel Celeron
processor, 996 MHz and 512 MB of RAM. I noticed this
happened when I changed to Bellsouth DSL Lite. (Formerly
had Cable connection thru cable company)
