[crosspost to WU NG]
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> All this happened after the latest updates were installed on 2/10/09.
What updates were installed on 2/10/09?
What anti-virus application or security suite is installed and is your
subscription current? What anti-spyware applications (other than Defender)?
What third-party firewall (if any)?
Has a Norton or McAfee application ever been installed on this machine
(e.g., a free-trial version that came preinstalled when you bought it)?
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Electrosonics wrote:
> Background: Vista computer that was working fine...
>
> I have a home page that has a number of links on it. One of the links is
> for
> an website that must be listed as a trusted site in order for the scripts
> to
> work correctly. If I click on the hyperlink on the webpage, IE7 opens a
> new
> windows that says "Navigation to the webpage was canceled, What you can
> try:
> Retype the address". The URL is dropped and replaced with
> "about
rotectedmodeoff". You can close the error window but not the
> originating IE window. The originating window is useless - nothing works.
> If
> you close it, it takes a minute or so before is closes. Nothing in event
> log. Task manager cannot kill IE either. You just have to wait...
>
> If I type the URL in the address bar instead of clicking on the hyperlink,
> the site works fine.
>
> If I remove the site from trusted sites, the site opens just fine but then
> the scripts create a IE warning and of course, the site won't work.
>
> All this happened after the latest updates were installed on 2/10/09.
>
> Fix one thing - break another... Very frustrating.