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"Your current security settings prohibit ActiveX..

Pinan:

There are a couple of issues here:

1) It's not possible per se to turn off that warning. God knows people have looked for a way to disable it, but that warning box is hard coded into one another DLL used by IE. In some ways, it's the holy grail of IE users. I've been dealing with that blasted warning for well nigh seven years. After a couple ten thousand of those warnings, I'm well aware that ActiveX controls are disabled. Put simply, MS doesn't want there to be an easy, pain-free way for you to shun its proprietary technology.

2) Now, if you've put sites in the Trusted sites zone and you're still seeing the warning, that likely indicates that the sites you're visiting are pulling content from multiple sources. In other words, you visit www.site.com, but that site is displaying banner ads or Flash ads or some other obnoxious bit of garbage from ads.scam-artists.com. You can put site.com in your Trusted sites zone, but any ActiveX controls being pulled from scam-artists.com will still fall in the Internet zone (or the Restricted zone, if you've put scam-artists.com in that zone). A "Mixed" zone icon in the bottom right-hand corner of the IE window is a good tip-off that this is happening.

If you could give us an example page or two where you're encountering this problem, perhaps we could get a better idea of just what is causing those ActiveX warnings to appear.

Best,

Eric L. Howes

Thanks for the reply Eric

Yes. My only issue is in the Trusted Sites zone. I'm aware that it should happen otherwise.

Here's one that does it to me. Abit motherboard site:

»www.abit.com.tw/abitweb/webjsp/e···ndex.jsp

It does show as Trusted, and not Mixed.

Thanks again.

reply to Pinan
Pinan:

As I suspected, that abit page is pulling content from at least three different sources. The main source of content is:

www.abit.com.tw

But it's also getting content from:

202.168.194.118
download.macromedia.com

Indeed, that page is loaded with Flash ads, so it's undoubtedly the macromedia.com that's causing your problem. If you've already got www.abit.com.tw or abit.com.tw in your Trusted sites zone, then the problem is this: either you've got macromedia.com in your Restricted sites zone, or you've got the Internet zone configured to disallow ActiveX controls.

Are you seeing the Flash ads at the very top and then along the sides?

Eric L. Howes

said by eburger68:

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either you've got macromedia.com in your Restricted sites zone, or you've got the Internet zone configured to disallow ActiveX controls.

Are you seeing the Flash ads at the very top and then along the sides?

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Based on what Eric posted, it sounds that the stuff on the trusted site page that loads from other sites (that are not in your trusted list) is what triggers the Active X blurb. So in this case it appears it would be the macromedia site stuff that triggers the blurb.

reply to Pinan
"Just for fun I added macromedia.com to my Trusted Sites. Still no go."

Did you clear your cache after that and before reloading the page?

said by user sig:

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Did you clear your cache after that and before reloading the page?

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AH HA!! Thanks to the info from Eric, I added all the above mentioned Macromedia sites and IP to Trusted Sites, and lo and behold it worked! Now what? I hate to have those sites in Trusted, LOL. Oh well. Figured it out anyway.

Thanks Eric, and all very much.

Boy, that is sad. Damned aggravating too that the sites are set up like that.
[text was edited by author 2003-02-22 20:49:53]

reply to Pinan
Hi All:

A quick followup on this topic. I was asked via IM how one can tell what sources for content a web page is drawing from, such as in the case we saw with that Abit page. Here's what I wrote in the ReadMe for IE-SPYAD:

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How can I tell which entry is causing
a problem with a web site?
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Web pages can draw content from multiple sources, including third party sources. Thus, for example, you might visit www.cnn.com and encounter a widget on that page that doesn't work. But that widget isn't being drawn from cnn.com (which isn't even IE-SPYAD). In this case, you'll have to identify the sources for the content on cnn.com's home page. It's likely that the widget is being pulled from some third-party source (say, doubleclick.net) that IS in IE-SPYAD's list of Restricted domains and servers. If you can identify the source for content that isn't working, you can then remove the entry which is causing the problem from the Restricted sites zone.

It can be a bit tricky to identify all the sources for a web page's content. One good tip-off that a web page is drawing content from multiple sources is the "Mixed" zone icon that you might see in the bottom right-hand corner of Internet Explroer. A "Mixed" zone means that a web page is drawing content from multiple sources which fall into different zones. One of those sources is likely in the Restricted sites zone.

There are several ways to identify all the sources for a web page's content:

1. Info on the page itself

Hover your mouse over images (esp. banner ads) and other links and watch the bottom band of Internet Explorer, which previews the sites which are linked to. You can also right-click on images and look at the "Properties" for those images. Either method will provide some indication as to where page content is being drawn from.

2. The IE6 Privacy Report

In Internet Explorer 6.0, go "View" >> "Privacy Report." The Privacy Report gives you a rundown of "Web sites with content on the page."

3. Personal firewall logs

Most personal firewalls provide logging of some sort, and you can look through your firewall's logs to get some indication of the sources for a page's content.

4. View the HTML source

Go "View" >> "Source" to open the HTML source for a page. Looking through HTML can be a pain, but it does reveal all the sources for page content. Note: if the site uses frames, you'll have to open the framed page separately (right click on the framed page, then "Open Frame in New Window"). Then you can "View" >> "Source."

It's not always difficult to track down the specific entry in the Restricted sites zone that's causing a web site not to work, but sometimes it does require some patience.

Hope the above is of assistance to someone.

Best,

Eric L. Howes

Thank you very much for your very informative post and help Eric. I've created a FAQ credited to you above.

»Security » "Your current security settings prohibit running ActiveX controls.. "

Thumbs up to you.

reply to Pinan
I get that very rarely.(My internet pants are half-down!)
But while you deal with your configuration issues...
here's a tip to preserve your sanity.
TURN OFF THE SOUND!!!

I have a 'start-up' sound, and a 'shut down' sound,
and the in-between is silently golden.
--
Bushwacked!