I had exactly the same problem and decided that Kaspersky was the problem.
I uninstalled the programme, reinstalled KB944533 and was once again able to
access webpages.
"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:
Quote:
> [Ooo, I didn't think of the possibility that they may have upgraded to Vista
> with KIS installed, Robert. Nice catch!]
>
> Robert Aldwinckle wrote: Quote:
> > "jimmy3d" <jimingraham@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:36160400-4894-4094-b08a-15f061dc2d04@xxxxxx Quote:
> >>
> >>
> >> i too am having this same problem...am running vista home prem with
> >> Kapersky Int. Suite installed but with it's firewall disabled.
> >
> >
> > But was it ever enabled? And, to reask another of my questions,
> > does it have any diagnostics in it which would clarify what is happening
> > when it is enabled? If so, (to repeat) enabling it could prove
> > helpful...
> > ; o
> > Also, this suggests that perhaps Kaspersky was running when the install
> > was done (or after the boot needed to install the updated in-use modules)?
> > If that was the case and if that product did _anything_ to disrupt the
> > install you would have another explanation for your symptom. E.g. that
> > could prevent IE from working properly by breaking its configuration in
> > the
> > registry. Diagnosing that without any knowledge of IE's internals would
> > probably be practically impossible. The best you could do then I suspect
> > would be using ProcMon to trace file and registry accesses for both good
> > and bad cases and then try comparing the two logs.
> >
> > Quote:
> >> the problem is only with IE7 as Firefox and email works fine.
> >
> >
> > Which proves you do have adequate connectivity but doesn't clarify
> > whether iexplore.exe is being blocked (assuming now that the install
> > was not corrupted in any manner by your security package.)
> >
> > Quote:
> >> Am a little
> >> hesitant to uninstall Kapersky as its a little dicey getting keys re-
> >> recognized sometimes.
> >
> >
> > So then try the other diagnostics I suggested. ; }
> >
> > Another approach which may help if a blockage is active in nature
> > would be booting in safe mode with networking. E.g. then if the blockage
> > was being caused by misconfigured service, that program might be less
> > likely
> > to be running.
> >
> > If the blockage is being caused in some other manner, e.g. some kind of
> > deliberate modification to the new iexplore.exe module by your security
> > apps which prevents it from running properly--unless there is some builtin
> > monitoring which shows the reason for the failure of attempts to use the
> > program over the network, I don't know how you will be able to detect what
> > is causing it. This possibility would just be a hopefully more
> > discoverable instance of the
> > "broken configuration" hypothesis. Again, running ProcMon and
> > comparing
> > good and bad traces would be what I would try to provide sufficient clues.
> >
> >
> > Good luck
> >
> > Robert
> > --- >
>