Re: I'm at the proverbial brick wall with this 'puter!

johns wrote:

It probably is working, but your version of IE is so out
of date that it has expired, and no longer funtions on
the web. Microsoft use to send out notices about that.
Test ping. If that is working, then your problem is W98.

johns


Internet Explorer doesn't 'expire'. What you may have heard of is old SSL certificates 'expiring' after a certain date. Actually, it isn't that they fall apart or go 'poof', it's that they aren't valid past that date.

It only affects sites wanting to establish a secure connection to the machine, like online banking. It might revert to an insecure connection or some sites might not allow an insecure transaction regardless.

But it wouldn't prevent IE from working on most sites and you'd still know it was working even on the ones that reject it as you get told why.

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