403 Forbidden error - access control list

[Guest JohnP]

Windows XP Home, SP 2; IE 7, version 7.0.5730.11. When I open IE, I cannot

access the internet. In the tab that opens it reads, "403 Forbidden", and on

the web page it reads, "You were denied access because: Access denied by

access control list". I do have internet access since Widows Update has

downloaded and installed updates and my anti-virus software has also updated

itself. I have reset all IE settings to factory defaults. I have gone to

Start -> Set Program Access and Defaults and reset it every-which-way to make

IE the default browser and it seems to keep reseting itself to Custom -> Use

Current Web Browser.

 

Did I inadvertently screw-up some setting somewhere? Since IE is the only

browser installed, I cannot get on the internet to download a different

browser to test that out, I'm STUCK. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

[Guest Malke]

Re: 403 Forbidden error - access control list

 

JohnP wrote:

> Windows XP Home, SP 2; IE 7, version 7.0.5730.11. When I open IE, I

> cannot

> access the internet. In the tab that opens it reads, "403 Forbidden", and

> on the web page it reads, "You were denied access because: Access denied

> by

> access control list". I do have internet access since Widows Update has

> downloaded and installed updates and my anti-virus software has also

> updated

> itself. I have reset all IE settings to factory defaults. I have gone to

> Start -> Set Program Access and Defaults and reset it every-which-way to

> make IE the default browser and it seems to keep reseting itself to Custom

> -> Use Current Web Browser.

>

> Did I inadvertently screw-up some setting somewhere? Since IE is the only

> browser installed, I cannot get on the internet to download a different

> browser to test that out, I'm STUCK. Any help would be greatly

> appreciated. Thanks.

 

Obviously you can get on the Internet from some other computer because you

are posting here. From that other computer, download Firefox and save the

installer executable on a USB thumb drive. Now install it on your home

machine. If you can get on the Internet with it, you know something in IE

is set incorrectly. In that case, what is the recent history of the

machine? What changed between the time things worked and the time they

didn't?

 

If you determine that the issue lies with Internet Explorer alone, then post

in the IE newsgroup where the IE experts can assist you.

 

microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general

 

Malke

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