news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...er.ie6.browser news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...rnet.browserIf you like, you can copy and paste those links in your IE Address window.Then either click on "Go" or key in Enter to get Outlook Express to openits newsreader. Change your real email address to something fake sothat malicious software doesn't harvest your address & spam you.Otherwise, navigate to an appropriate group over on the left therein the web interface. This group tries to stick to windows update."Jack S." <> wrote in messagenews:022448C6-2A3C-4D78-8CC8-...>I get the infamous "Internet Explorer has encountered a problem and must> close..." message on some web sites, or after trying to access somethingon> a web site. This only occurs on some - not all. And there is no apparent> reason, or similarity, or commonality in web sites.>> This started not long after I received a message (out of the blue) thatsaid> something to the effect, "Your computer has lost it's ???? license." I> noticed no problem at the time, and ignored the message, since I didn'thave> any such license that I knew of. The computer is a 1996 Puckered Bell Ibought> at Sears. It came with Win 95, which finally had so many problems I tookit> to a compute service store and had Win 98 installed. It worked fine for a> year. Still works good, but just won't let me on some websites.>> Does anyone know anything about this stupid problem? I've asked all sortsof> people, including my ISP, no one knows. I've updated everything, and still> no solution. I can't find out how to ask Microsoft, without paying an> exorbitant price up front with no guarantee of success.>> Let me know.> --> Jack S.