First, start by installing the most recent version of Java using the insructions below:
Click on the link to Sun's Java below, then click on the ''Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6u1'' download button. Follow the prompts, accept the license agreement, then download the full ''Windows Offline Installation'' file to your desktop,(about 15 MB), scan it with your antivirus (just to be sure it's clean). Once that's done, if you've already got a Sun Java version on the computer, (It appears like you may not though) open the Control Panel, double click on the ''Add/Remove Programs'' section, then uninstall all previous versions of the J2SE Java listed there. Once that's done, then install Java JRE 6u1 from the downloaded installer.
http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp
Next, be sure to scan the computer for spyware using a good antispyware tool.
Hope this helps.
Grif
Internet Explorer crashes when I try to login to a secure site. The sites I've tried are comcast.net, mail.yahoo.com, and snapfish.com. As soon as I type my username/password and click the login button, I get this message: "Internet Explorer has stopped working, windows is trying to find a solution to the problem..." and then it says, "A problem caused the program to stop working correcting. windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available. " I never get notified, so I guess a solution is not available. I've also tried unchecking Protected Mode in the options, and also using the lowest security and privacy settings on IE, still nothing. Any ideas on how I can fix this?

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