Wife's machine... (homebuilt by my brother, Windows 2000, OS) has suddenly begun to give security alerts when she accesses Paypal, (I know, I know, Paypal is anti-gun and Pro-Kerry, but her eBay biz/hobby is really taking off).

I have gone into Tools and adjusted the security settings all over the place, even to low across the board, allowed ActiveX all access, disabled most security settings, run Spybot S&D, rebooted several times, accessed Paypal on my machine (running XP, no security alerts), and as such am about out of ideas.

Any of you computer whizzes out there got any suggestions aside from quit Paypal, Windows is teh suck and the like?

Quoted: May try deleting all the temporary internet files and cookies, then accessing PayPal again. There may be some cookie attached to the site that is triggering the alarm.

I forgot to list this, but I have already tried.

BTW, who is next on the list for the Hawks?

Rock Chalk!

Quoted: What are the security warnings saying?

They say that the company has been selected as a company we do not trust. I did some checking and found the company is Verisign?!?!?!?

MY wife and I are using Verisign based security all of the time, so this does not make sense. I vaguely remember seeing a place on Windows 2000 where you could indicate which companies you would definitely not trust. I just cannot find it now.

Quoted: Try downloading firefox and see if you get the same security alert.  Maybe some spyware really embedded in IE. Firefox

I thought that i may need to completely dump IE to get around it. I'll try it and go from there.

Quoted: Try tools, internet options, security.  Play around on that screen.  Perhaps add paypal.com as a trusted site or change the security level.

Well, thanks....but I have already tried all of that. I am leaning towards it being some sort of deep imbedded spyware/IE issue.