Have you just performed a fresh install of windows and can’t seem to enter anything into any of the zone sites?

Whenever you try, it spews out the following:

You have entered an invalid wildcard sequence:
Examples of valid patterns:
*://*.microsoft.com

http://*.microsoft.co.jp

ftp://157.54.23.41/
file:\\localsrv\share
*://157.54.100-200.*
Examples of invalid patterns:

http://microsoft.*.com

ftp://*

And yet your domain is valid?

Well, it appears you’re missing a registry key (yup, even though it might be a completely fresh install!).

The key that is missing is as follows:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet
Settings\ZoneMap

Or, if that is there, check to make sure that this one is there:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet
Settings\ZoneMap

Either of these missing will cause your problem. More than likely it will be the current user one and will be down to the profile of the user not being generated fully for some reason.