We have a couple of machines that have mysteriously had the MSN Homepage start showing up in an Outline, Text Only, Style. ALL OTHER MSN pages are fine (MSN Money, Auto, Tech all populate properly).
Nothing we do seems to solve this issue. We are on Windows XP Pro SP2+ systems with Java v6 r14, running MSIE 7.0.5730.13.
We have deleted all cookies, offline content, history, reset all settings to default, security to default, reinstalled MSIE 7....
The users want to use MSIE and this particular homepage.
It really seems like tit should be an easy fix, but we are just missing it apparently; any ideas?
Sample of MSN Homepage Issue
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Do any of the computer use a Modified "host file."?
I believe all the MSN.com CSS files come from
look for s-msn.com in the Hosts file Open it with Notepad.
If that entry is in the file delete the whole line.
Windows Vista = C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVER
Windows XP = C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVER
Windows 2K = C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\
Selvol
Some how the computers are not getting access to
http://col.stc.s-msn.com to be specific.
Here is an image of my screen after I blocked assess to
col.stc.s-msn.com
MSN
Yes, it could be the firewall or some sort of spam/internet filtering program.
Apologies for the first assumption. 99% sure the problem is not in IE or FF or any other browser.
If you go to the hosts file on a working system and add this line.
o.o.o.o. col.stc.s-msn.com
and save the file. Close your browser and go to Msn.com you should get the same picture you and I posted.
Proving the theory some thing is not letting
col.stc.s-msn.com
or just try to Download this file as a test.
http://col.stc.s-msn.com/b
Depending what the situation is. You could download the above css file from a good compute. Load it onto the bad computer then ,the in the Internet explorer option under accessibility link to that css .
If needed. But the every page would use that css?
Selvol
Yes, I see it..
http://www.EDIT/profil
I believe ../ WOrked
../ = back 1 folder,
Regards Selvol
I was having the very same problem. We are using Sonicwall in our site and apparently sonicwall was categorizing col.stc.s-msn.com as Chat/IM, which is blocked content. As soon as I created the exception under Content Filtering the issue was resovled. So, if you are using a content filter make sure you allow this url: col.stc.s-msn.com
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by: selvolPosted on 2009-07-22 at 17:38:12ID: 24920977
Can you update IE to the latest patches. Or goto ie8.
That should fix the problem.
Selvol