Recently, I applied the January 2001 security
patch from the “WindowsUpdate” site to my
Windows 2000 installations. After doing so,
my browser(s) would not allow me to browse
the internet without granting “Administrator”
rights to the user.This is true of both Internet Explorer 5.5
and Netscape 4.75 Specifically, Netscape
gives the error…”Cannot connect to the
TCP/IP socket”. Once Administrator rights
are assigned, everything works normally.
The January security patch involves closing a
security “hole” in Microsoft Virtual Machine
which allowed malicious code a “backdoor” to
the client. It is my thinking that some
“permission” was taken away, or some “patch”
applied that effected the TCP/IP stack.
However, I cannot find any discussion of this
on the Microsoft sites or other message
boards. Also, I cannot find any specific
registry keys that address this.
Any ideas? Thx.
