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Wondering if anyone here can give me an idea of what is wrong with my browser. It turns out I can't get into some pages and all I get is an error I had not seen before.
"You are not authorized to view this page
You might not have permission to view this directory or page using the credentials you supplied. "
what credentials are they talking about?? and how do I change them??
You have enabled content advisor and it have a password.
You can fix it by doing this to reset password from content advisor
1 Go to start, run, type "regedit" and press "OK".
2 Expand the folders down the left, in this order.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
>Software
>Microsoft
>Windows
>CurrentVersion
>Policies
>Ratings
3 On the right you will see the word "Key" - Click it once, then press "del" or right click, and select delete.
4 Close the registry editor.
5 Go to start, run, type "explorer" and press "OK".
6 Navigate to C:\Windows\System and delete "ratings.pol"
Thanks for the reply but that didnt work my friend, and "ratings.pol" is nowhere to be found on my computer. I did find other files named ratings but with a different extension. Anyways thanx again. Im kind of a newbie at web related stuff. Im more of a programmer so I really dont have much of a lead as to what to do, I did reset my web settings, and checking my internet options it says that the content advisor is now in fact disabled.
Try to repair you IE, look in uninstall.
You can also run antispy, it can help or antivirus, it can be some kinde of trojan, may be.
If it will not help.
Delete all programs from autostart first, reboot you PC and check out if it works.
Or
You can also use
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/processexplorer.html
To "kill" programs that you dont know and find this that makes problem.
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Try other browsers, t. ex. mozilla or opera if them work.
Thanx for all your help, I will look that page out. About my problem. well I ran Spybot and didnt get any results but Ad-aware did throw a registry key and described it as a "browser hijack attempt" Will look into that more.
Just out of curiosity, what's the HTTP error number?
EDIT: IE 5.5 or 6?
Funny, now that you asked that, the number is Error 403- Forbidden, but it doesn't appear in big bold letter at the top of the page like it usually happens, but rather at the very end of the page, in tiny letters.
I hope it will help you
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=284666
[ if link don't work search it on support.microsoft.com ]
From last reply:
microsoft.com says the error comes from three possible sources:
1) A version of Microsoft Internet Explorer that is earlier than version 6 is installed on your computer
2)Internet Explorer is configured as a Web proxy client of a computer that is running Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000.
3)The external Web site is located on a computer that is running Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) that is configured to use Integrated Windows authentication.
I know my problem is not number one. And they dont tell me how to find out if it is 2 or 3 but rather just say update to IE 6.
That's kinda where i as going Ritesh, and also to see if it was related to any vulnerability that I know of (corrupt host file, etc.)
EDIT: I assume from your reply to Ritesh that you're running IE6. Give me a few minutes and I'll see what I can come up with.
Could possible be a Qhosts-1 trojan :confused:
It's the only thing I can think of right now, but the symptoms you describe aren't exactly the same.
Is the problem intermittant, does it only occur on specific web sites? If it happens on one site and you do a refresh, do you still get the error?
I had this happen once...only on the Windows Update Site. Turns out the date on my hardware firewall was wrong (said year 2002 instead of 2004). Set the date correctly and voila, problem solved.
Just thinking your problem may be related.
Not looks like to me as a Trojan but cant say anything .
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Try this (may be its stupid after all you did)
Tools>Internet options.
click security tab.
Set to default setting to all the option.
If this not works..
Try to reinstall IE.
Even this is not working "let me scrach my HEAD...."
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Ive only had it happen on two pages, but one of them is kind of important since its WebCT page, a page where I go visit some of my university courses and see important informatio about my classes.
Well, that probably rules out a firewall problem, as I doubt the university would block access to their own site. Do you have a personal firewall installed? I know that Symantec Client Security has a feature called autoblock that will cause a 503 error if it blocks a site (because it detects an access attempt to an unauthorized port, can be as simple as an ICMP ping depending on how it's configured.)
Also, If it worked fine before and one day the error started, ask yourself what changed on the PC?
OK ! so may be(now its 85%) they don't want it to display as you want it to get.
I mean you are NOT allowed to do login.
Tell us the link, let me chk , if will have the same error or not?
The problem doesn't lie there....My college uses the WebCT service and I have no problems logging in. Besides, when the credentials are not entered correctly, I don't get an HTTP 503 error, I get a login failed error from the site.
{The problem doesn't lie there....My college uses the WebCT service and I have no problems logging in. Besides, when the credentials are not entered correctly, I don't get an HTTP 503 error, I get a login failed error from the site }
I agree BUT I WAS EDITING MY MESSAGE at that time so when I submit you already put yr msg.
So its the time gap only....I still AGREE ;-))
My bad! What do you think could be going on here....I'm runnung out of ideas!
Try accessing it from another place. After everything, it might be a problem with their webserver.
Cheers,
cgkanchi
Man i really appreciate your help.
I did run a system scan with norton and nothing dropped. I dont have any firewall besides the windows default installed at this moment. What is weird is that yes, it did worked fine like three days ago, and nothing has changed since then, I havent installed anything on my computer (and on the paranoid side) the only different thing has been maybe my roomate using my computer to visit some lybian universities sites, but why would a site like that try to mess around with my computer, plus like I said Ad-aware and Spybot didnt detect anything weird either. Im just about to just reformat everything and start from scratch this damn thing. I gotta tell you IE sucks, Im prefering mozilla but for this occassion since what i want is to use WebCT Mozilla is not compatible, but I hear theres a way to trick the system to think it is.....Oh well if any new idea arises Ill be glad to hear them.
do you have this problem if you try navigating to the page in question from the links supplied on your home page?
Since when? It works just fine...or maybe it's just the version of WebCT you are trying to use it with?Quote:
WebCT Mozilla is not compatible
For some reason IE wont appear now on the add/remove programs option of the control panel.