security warning - autoupdate.msn.com

[Guest]

I have been getting a security warning since installing SP2. I am running
windows XP, use a cable modem & use msn dialup 9 as my browser.
Each time I connect to the internet with msn I get this message in a pop-up
(it has the butterfly in the toolbar & the gold shield with an ! in it on the
message - so I think it is from msn):

The current web page is trying to open a site in your Trusted Users list.
Do you want to allow this?
Current site: autoupdate.msn.com
Trusted site download.windowsupdate.com
yes / no:

Has anyone else experienced this? I've tried to get help from Microsoft
twice. They had me reinstall msn 9 & then reinstall SP2. Neither worked. I
use Zone Alarm (the free one) & turned off Windows Firewall. They also had
me check what was in my trusted sites. They don't seem to know what to do
about this and act like they have never heard of this issue before. Help??
This is concerning me.

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Set the Homepage blank
-or-
Simplest workaround is to add "autoupdate.msn.com" domain to the Trusted Zones list in IE.

More Information:

Security Warning appears when you try to navigate to a Trusted site from a webpage:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/ie/zoneelev.htm

 

[Guest]

Thank you for the reply, I added https://autoupdate.msn.com to my trusted
sites list & did not get the pop message this time when starting msn. Was it
correct to use https:// ?

However, I just want to be assured that this is correct becasue when I have
tried to go to this site https://autoupdate.msn.com or
http://autoupdate.msn.com there is no page available to display. I also have
told 2 other Microsoft tech support people what was in my safe list & they
did not ask me to add this.

I appreciate your help!

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Hi,

Add http://autoupdate.msn.com to the Trusted Zone. The browser is probably redirecting you to windowsupdate.com from the above page (Homepage?)

 

[Guest]

OK - now I have both http://autoupdate.msn.com & https://autoupdate.msn.com
added to my trusted sites. I had to uncheck the box "Require server
verification (https to add http://autoupdate.msn.com.

Should they both be there?

Thank you so much for you help. I was not sure if this was a valid site
since my browser doesn't find a page for it.

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

https://autoupdate.msn.com
This can be removed.