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Old 01-05-2006, 04:31 PM
Rob Parsons
 
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Default Re: Home page fails to load

Hi Tom,

Problem fixed. You removed the offending line from your home page. IE was
doing the right thing. Your Home Page which I assume is on a local disk (My
Computer security Zone) was trying to address a URL in the Internet Zone.
"Tom Hopkins" <TomHopkins@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:70DB3765-BA7E-4EBC-B2C2-162AA8C9167B@microsoft.com...
> I recently had an issue with my home page failing to load when viewed with

IE
> 6.0.
> I received the following message: 'file:\\//abcedfghabcdefgh.....Make

sure
> the path or internet address is correct. the page would not load and the
> activity indicated that something was being counted. The page would load
> flawlessly using Firefox or Opera. In the status bar using IE 6.0 there

was
> a red circle with a line through indicating there was a question on the
> security of the site. The URL for the site in question is
> http://stats4all.cc. This apparently is a counter site. I removed the

line
> from the page programming and the site again works using IE.
> can anyone shed any light on what may be happening? Why would this

included
> line affect only IE and not the other browsers. Is there another hole in

the
> IE program that needs to be addressed?
> I am assuming my page was hacked at some point in that this include line

in
> the page was not written into it.
> Any help or comments will be appreciated.



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