Access 2002 - Intranet Error

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Mike

I am using Access 2002 on a home pc. I've created several
databases with the program which are stored on my local
hard drive. When I try to open any of them, I recieve the
message:
"Microsoft Access cannot open this file. This file is
located outside your intranet or on an untrusted site.
Microsoft Access will not open the file due to potential
security problems. To open the file, copy it to your
machine or an accessible network location."

When I open Window's Explorer and click on anything in my
C: Drive, it shows everything in it as a restricted site
in the bottom right hand corner of the screen. I've tried
copying the file to another director as well as buring it
to a CD and then trying to access it from there, but the
same error occurs. I read in the knowledge base about
this error occuring over a network, but did not come
across anything about seeing it on a local machine.
 
I have read through this procedure, but what I guess I
failed to mention is that I am not attempting to access
these databases from another computer. I am trying to open
the DB from the computer which it already resides on. If
my C Drive has an IP address, I guess I'm unaware on how
to reference it. My hard drive is not partitioned in any
way. Like I mentioned in my first posting, the databases
copied to a CD still produces the same error. Most of the
postings that I've read so far say that when Access
generates this error, it can be corrected when moved to
the user's local machine. This is not my case.
 
I am using Windows 98SE. When trying to adjust the
Intranet Security Settings in Internet Explorer
(V.6.00.2800), to "Low", it automatically switches back
to "Medium-Low". This occurs even if I exit IE as if it
cannot save the setting. I originally had the pc set-up
as a "Network Server". The only logon was just a user
name of my first name, but was not associated with a
Title, such as Administrator or Client and does not have a
password associated with it. I originally set this to a
Network Server becasue I was told it would speed up
certain applications. I now switched it back to a Desktop
Computer and allowed other's to access my files, by
checking the Print and File Sharing under the Network
Settings of the Control Panel. After restarting the
computer the same failure occured.

I ran Norton Virus Scan on my computer and it did find a
Virus called JS Seeker. After reading the various JS
Seekers that are out there, and there are quite a few,
they all seem to modify the Registry in one way or
another. The majority of them reset the Start-up Pages of
Internet Explorer and modify Defult Search Engines. In
reading the descriptions of each Virus, I did not find
any of them that modified the Registry with respect to the
hard drive. When I checked to see if any of my defults
were changed in the Registry of IE, they were fine.
 
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