I had the same problem today, tried removing the security download to no
effect.However I then disabled my firewall and lo and behold ie 7 came bac
with connectivity as well as Netscape and Opera.
Thought you would like to now and try this.
Ron

"Brandon" wrote:

> Just a couple of days ago, I went to Microsoft Update to download the updates
> for February. All of them installed without failure, but then I noticed that
> Internet Explorer 7 kept giving me connectivity errors after the process was
> done.
>
> I cleaned out the temporary files and history before starting it again.
> Still does not see me connected. But when I used another browser such as
> Firefox, I was able to connect with no problem. Then I uninstalled and
> reinstalled Internet Explorer to make sure that I was not using any corrupt
> files. Still no connection.
>
> Then I remembered, this happened after the updates. So I went to Add/Remove
> Programs to remove the update, and restarted. And behold, I was able to
> connect to the internet. The name of this update went by KB928090. To prove
> this, I tried to use Internet Explorer with and without the update. It only
> allowed me to connect WITHOUT this update after doing so.
>
> Is there a fix to this, because on the webpage that explained the update in
> detail did not have any information reguarding this issue.
>
> By the way, I am using Windows XP Home Edition SP2, with Internet Explorer
> 7.