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September 2nd, 2005 17:00
128 encryption in IE6.0 disappeared
Running W2K Sp4, IE6.0 Sp1 on Dimension 4300 Pentium
Just recently I've not been able to go to or logon to secure pages such as the ones for bill paying, dell support logon etc. I get an error page saying "Page Cannot be Displayed". One of the suggestions that is listed on this page is to check the encryption strength, which has always been 128. When I checked "About" in IE, it now says Cipher strength 0-bit, with no update link next to it.
So after searching MS support, I found a page to download the High Encryption pack, Encpack_Win2000_EN, for install. It said in the notes to accept the agreement when that window popped up upon installing. 1) that agreement window never popped up 2) encpack seems to install, it asks me to restart my computer but Cipher strength is still at 0-bit after the computer is restarted.
I run McAfee, Ad-Aware and have Zone Pro firewall, all of which never interfered with accessing these pages in the past. (These are pages I access several times a month). I have tried to access these pages with none of the security programmes running to no avail.
I tried to submit the question to MS, but they say since I have OEM software, I must use Dell.
I tried to uninstall IE, however in the Add/Remove Software in Control Panel, uninstalling is not an option. I tried to "repair" it by re-installing IE again. This did not work either.
Thank you very much for any help.
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sros
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September 14th, 2005 22:00
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=261328
Let me know if this helps!
VHermann
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September 16th, 2005 16:00
I had read so many articles on this and each one said something about load this update, that fix, etc. etc. Well even though I had Automatic Updater check my system and uploaded everything it recommended, I still was not sure what indeed had been installed. So upon the recommendation of someone I downloaded and installed the software recommended at Tip 9526 at http://www.jsifaq.com/Tipndx/Tip9500.htm, MBSA 2.0. I was very reluctant to install yet another Microsoft product, but this one seems to be quite good and it found several updates that were not installed, inspite of Automatic Updater. After I installed them and rebooted, voila, the problem was gone. Not sure why, or how, but I was not going to argue.
In all the many days it took to read up on everything to get this problem fixed, I did find Mozilla Firefox browser. Downloaded it, use it, like it. I have IE on hand for those sites that MS will not let me access with anything but IE.
Thanks for your help.