I am surprised that your bank site not only would tell you that you need to
update, but give you a choice to update. My bank site, gave me the choice,
and I said yes, and it updated.
At 09:50 AM 12/18/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi David,
>
>I also appreciate all the help you provide. I have another wrinkle for you!
>This morning, I tried to go to my compensation plan's web site. They
>recently upgraded to a more secure site, and therefore require a 128 bit
>encrypted vrowser. No problem, I thought as I had 128 bit IE4, and when I
>upgraded to IE5 from the Jaws CD, I assumed that encryption transferred.
>However, when I could not get on the Deferred Comp site, I went into help
>and about in IE5 and learned that I had a 40 bit siber strength version. So
>the fun began! I tried to go to Microsoft's site and saw an upgrade to
>IE5.01 which included the 128 bit version. I didn't want 5.01, so I made a
>couple of calls to Citibank, and then to my I.S.P. Here's a tip for anybody
>wanting to upgrade their security with IE5, as told to me by my I.S.P rep.
>If you go to help and about in IE5, you'll see the siber strength you have,
>most likely either 40 or 128. If you wish to upgrade from 40 to 128, you
>move the Jaws cursor to the word "update". Place the Jaws cursor on any
>character in the word "update", not on the parentheses, but on the actual
>word. Then click the left mouse button, and you are taken to the Microsoft
>site and the page where the patch can be downloaded. It's pretty easy from
>there to upgrade your security. The file is called MSIE128.exe, about 220KB
>in size. I ran the patch, and now have a 128 bit encrypted version of
>IE5.0. This probably relates to what you reported about the version of IE5
>on the Jaws CD. I just thought that if the update saw a 128 bit version, it
>would automatically update it, as many have told me. Not true. Sorry for
>the lengthy message, but others may wish to upgrade their version, and this
>is the easiest way to do this. By the way, I can now access the Deferred
>Comp site, which is what started all of this in the first place.
>Best Regards,
>
>Les
>
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Walter
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