You receive a "Work Offline" dialog box in Internet Explorer 8 after the computer resumes from sleep or from hibernation

Consider the following scenario:

• You use Windows Internet Explorer 8 to browse web pages.
• You put the computer to sleep (S3) or into hibernation (S4).
• You resume the computer after a while.

In this scenario, you receive a Work Offline�dialog box in Internet Explorer 8. However, the computer is connected to the Internet.

Security update information

To resolve this problem, install the most recent cumulative security update for Windows Internet Explorer. To do this, visit the following Microsoft website: For more technical information about the most recent cumulative security update for Windows Internet Explorer, visit the following Microsoft website: Note�This update was first included in security update�2183461�(MS10-053).� For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: