Webmaster Forum / Browsers / Internet Explorer / May 2004

I wonder if someone can help.
  I am using IE 6.0 and recently, without doing anything different to
my settings,I get the following message box when I close IE and wait for
just a minute or two then try open IE again to go to a web site):

Work offline
No connections to the internet is currently available.  To view internet
content that has been saved on your computer, click work offline.
[work offline]      [try again]

I have never worked offline and, before now, never have checked "work
offline".  I have tried every setting I can find to try and make IE stay
connected, but nothing works.

The only thing I can imagine that I did to change IE from the way things
were before these messages started coming was download a security up
date for Windows but, I am almost sure that was a week or two before
this started happening.

I also made one other change, updating my Norton Antivirus. But the
above message continues to come up when I disable Norton and when I
disable my Zone Alarm too (both of which worked perfectly fine with IE
for years before).
I can't figure out what's happening. I would appreciate any suggestions.
Thanks,
Fred