Hi,
I'm very new to this forum, And unsure if I posted in the right place, & I should get used to it…
Following some sound advice from many sources, I beefed up the InternetExplorer settings in regards to ActiveX. What I didn't knew was I was going to get truckloads of warning prompts of the following variety
"Do you want to allow software such as ActiveX controls and plug-ins to run?"
Heck, even WIndowsMediaPlayer has joined the club, giving me warnings each time I display cover art. Microsoft is really handling a mess they created in an even messier way.
How exactly do I get rid of the warning prompts (I have IESpyguard that should prevent the nastier ActiveX from running, & use MozilllaFirebird 90% of the time)l
I place the sites that I trust into IE's Trusted zone. I found a tool that puts an icon for this in the toolbar but I can't remember where I got it from. The IE tools will add an option to the right click to add to the Trusted Zone.
While you are at it I recommend IE-SPYAD to place many nasty sites into the Restricted Zone http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~ehowes/resource.htm It is updated about once a week so check for these every once in a while.
Trust Setter looks like what I have. I don't use the Restricted Zone button but use the Trusted Zone one a lot. I have the Internet Zone locked down tight but the Restricted Zone is even tighter. I find that IE-SPYAD's developer is way ahead of me finding sites to place in the Restricted Zone. If I find the site nasty then I put it in the HOSTS file so it does not even display. I feed that site to hpguru's HOSTS file. CWS especially.
BTW, I'm YK in other newsgroups.
It is updated about once a week so check for these every once in a while.