I often use HTML files on my computer so I enable the security
setting: "Allow active content to run files on My Computer." However,
at least once a day that setting becomes disabled of it's own accord.

Is this a virus or a bug? I cannot see a pattern as to what might
cause the setting to keep changing unexpectedly. I have now set up a
shortcut to redo the registry since it happens so often and is so very
annoying for me.

What can I do to enable this setting and keep it that way? I now have
IE7 but had the problem with IE6, too, using Windows XP, Home Ed., SP2.

Thanks,
Rick.

Sunday, October 15; 12:08 PM

Options/settings in several third-party applications may be disallowing the
change. These include Ad-aware's Ad-Watch, Spybot Tea Timer, SpywareBlaster,
SpySweeper, Norton AntiVirus, McAfee VirusScan and/or Antispyware, and Zone
Alarm (Free and Pro).
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)

rickah wrote:
> I often use HTML files on my computer so I enable the security
> setting: "Allow active content to run files on My Computer." However,
> at least once a day that setting becomes disabled of it's own accord.
>
> Is this a virus or a bug? I cannot see a pattern as to what might
> cause the setting to keep changing unexpectedly. I have now set up a
> shortcut to redo the registry since it happens so often and is so very
> annoying for me.
>
> What can I do to enable this setting and keep it that way? I now have
> IE7 but had the problem with IE6, too, using Windows XP, Home Ed., SP2.
>
> Thanks,
> Rick.
>
> Sunday, October 15; 12:08 PM

Thanks Bear. That was it.
Rick.

PA Bear wrote:
> Options/settings in several third-party applications may be disallowing the
> change. These include Ad-aware's Ad-Watch, Spybot Tea Timer, SpywareBlaster,
> SpySweeper, Norton AntiVirus, McAfee VirusScan and/or Antispyware, and Zone
> Alarm (Free and Pro).
> --