was working fine until my daughter went surfing the other night. She swears she did not download anything but ever since I have not been able to connect using IE. I can get my emails and can attach via MSN. Have installed SP2 but no use. Any ideas?

Forgot to mention that I already did a restore to an earlier date that I knew everything was ok but this has not helped.

The latest version of IE is completely contained in SP2.

Are you saying that you installed or reinstalled SP2 after this problem and it did not sort it?

The Microsoft line for repairing IE post SP2 is to reinstall SP2:

How to reinstall or repair Internet Explorer and Outlook Express in Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318378/EN-US/