I am posting this out of necessity for my father-in-law. My father-in-law, a lovely gentleman for whom I have the utmost respect , bought his iMac at about the same time as I did (October/November 1999). Since my iMac order went in first, I ended up with a Revision "D" and a tray-loading CD -ROM with an OS of 8.6. I'm very happy with it and have had very little problems these past 5 years. I am in no rush to update. I'm about two years away from replacing my iMac, so I can wait.
My father-in-law's order came a few weeks after mine. He ended up with a slot-loading CD-Rom and at the time, the brand new OS 9. Because he only uses his computer for e-mailing and internet surfing, and because he is such a novice, he was afraid to update the OS 9 to its most recent version. So he presently has OS 9.0 This is where I think his problems lies. Apparently every time he logs on to the internet, whichever site he goes to, he gets a "Security Notice"window telling him the site is not secure. This is EVERY site he's going to. When I go to the same sites with my OS 8.6, I'm getting a security notice window telling me that I am entering a page which IS secure. We are both using what I believe to be the latest version of Internet Explorer for Macs (5.1.7). I tried having him go to his Preferences in Internet Explorer and click on Security. He has the same settings as I do. We even tried "reset to default", but that doesn't seem to help. All of his settings in his Preferences in Internet Explorer are the same as mine, yet I get a "Secured" window certificate, while he gets "unsecured" I believe the issue lies with the Operating System and I think updating to the most recent version of OS 9 would fix the problem. Does that sound plausible? Is there more information that you might need to diagnose the problem? --Kerry -- "If you aren't completely appalled, then you haven't been paying attention" -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
