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Thanks for the ‘heads-up’ on the KB article, it fixed my problems with the unchecking of one little tick-mark…..phew!

They still need a boot up the fundament for ‘presuming’ too much and not giving any warnings IMHO, those of less robust disposition than I might easily have plunged into total despair!

Cheers

Sigh….too late….it did it to me too, on 5 machines before I discovered it! ;-(

Despite studiously avoiding the ‘Draconian Email Security Patch’ all this time, I went ahead and applied the IE/OE 6 SP1 in a cavalier moment. It seems the patch is included in SP1 and virtually all attachments are now removed and inaccessible in OE….no warnings, nuffin! Curiously, the only attachment files I am ‘allowed’ to open are .doc ………talk about cheek, given the ease with which macro-virii and other ne’er-do-well-stuff can infiltrate MS Word documents!

Had I backed-up the systems first?…..course not! Honestly, MS need a swift and hearty size 10 boot up the fundament for this, how dare they take my options away from me, I’m not a complete idiot! Oh, wait a minute, see the first sentence in this paragraph

Uninstalling the SP didn’t help me I’m afraid, the settings are now stuck in OE…..sigh. Running under W2k SP3 but not Exchange, so it’s a POP3 mail system….anyone know of another way to undo this beast?

Cheers

Ok, this is kinda hard to explain without pointing, shrugging, grimacing, waving my arms around and other body-language tools

Let me give an example……
If I want to got to the site http://www.shop.retailer.com, I type that in the ‘Address’ box, but I get a ‘page not found’ error-message. If I then remove the www. at the front, I get to the page.

Now, if I then click on a link on the page that has a www. at the front, I get the page not found error again, and again, if I delete the www. at the front (in the address box), I get through. From this I’m surmising that something is adding an invisible www. at the front automatically, so that the address becomes http://www.www.shop.retailer.com., by removing the ‘visible’ www. I’m getting the right link.

As I said in the original post, this is a tiresome if effective solution, but……….!

An example of where this falls down is related to say, clicking on a link on the page that subscribes me to a news-letter, or registering for a message-forum, where an automated reply is sent to the host page. In this case, nothing appears in the address-box so I can’t remove the www. and so I get the dreaded page not found error

To further cloud the issue, I have looked at all my ‘favourites’, some begin with http://www., some don’t, but I can reach all of them without error. Links that appear in e-mails, etc., also appear to work OK.

Cheers

ROFL!!! Did the author of this piece of arcane gobbldegook study at the ‘Nostradamus School of Plain Speaking’ I wonder! I also have visions of several witches over a steaming cauldron….”Hubble-bubble, toil and trouble!”

Repeat this mantra….”Reformat, re-instal!”

Cheers