action canceled

I receive "action canceled" on portions of websites I
visit. Privacy & security settings medium. I running
norton system works 2004 , pop-up stopper , zone-alarm ,
spy-sweeper on my xp home system. Any suggestions ??

Greg

On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 01:54:35 -0800, Greg wrote:

> I receive "action canceled" on portions of websites I
> visit. Privacy & security settings medium. I running
> norton system works 2004 , pop-up stopper , zone-alarm ,
> spy-sweeper on my xp home system. Any suggestions ??
>
> Greg

Are the blank portions a small part of an entire page? If yes, these may be
ad and promotional feeds from third party sites that your various security
programs are blocking.

--
Sharon F
MS MVP - Windows XP Shell/User

>-----Original Message-----
>On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 01:54:35 -0800, Greg wrote:
>
>> I receive "action canceled" on portions of websites I
>> visit. Privacy & security settings medium. I running
>> norton system works 2004 , pop-up stopper , zone-
alarm ,
>> spy-sweeper on my xp home system. Any suggestions ??
>>
>> Greg
>
>Are the blank portions a small part of an entire page?
If yes, these may be
>ad and promotional feeds from third party sites that
your various security
>programs are blocking.
>
>--
>Sharon F
>MS MVP - Windows XP Shell/User

>Sharon
Yes ,the blank portions are a small part of the page.
I have lowered the privacy and the security settings to
the lowest setting and disabled norton system works,pop-
up stopper, zone alarm ,spy sweeper. Any other
suggestions ?
thanks Greg

On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 08:23:05 -0800, Greg wrote:

>>-----Original Message-----
>>On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 01:54:35 -0800, Greg wrote:
>>
>>> I receive "action canceled" on portions of websites I
>>> visit. Privacy & security settings medium. I running
>>> norton system works 2004 , pop-up stopper , zone-
> alarm ,
>>> spy-sweeper on my xp home system. Any suggestions ??
>>>
>>> Greg
>>
>>Are the blank portions a small part of an entire page?
> If yes, these may be
>>ad and promotional feeds from third party sites that
> your various security
>>programs are blocking.
>>

>Sharon
> Yes ,the blank portions are a small part of the page.
> I have lowered the privacy and the security settings to
> the lowest setting and disabled norton system works,pop-
> up stopper, zone alarm ,spy sweeper. Any other
> suggestions ?
> thanks Greg


Have you checked for blocked cookies? When I was using Cookie Pal and
rejected some cookies - the place holders for ads would not always fill in.
As an experiment, I emptied the blocked cookies list. Set the program to
accept all cookies and sure enough, those blank spaces filled in.

The version of Internet Explorer that comes with XP has "Privacy" settings
for cookie management: including "third party" cookies (I suspect the
cookies for the ads would be in this category) and per session cookies.
Zone Alarm Pro (and I believe, the recent free version of Zone Alarm)
include cookie controls too.

Some other situations to consider...

If the bulk of a web page displays images pulled from another site, these
may not show up if:
o the images are no longer available on the second site
o the URL in the author's HTML code references an image that no longer
exists at that location or it is not an accurate URL (wrong address,
inaccessible location, etc)

If a page contains any content in frames that references other sites, the
same pitfalls exists.

Busy servers or slow connections may deliver the bulk of a page minus the
"heavier" objects (images and other multimedia content). Try reloading the
page in this case.

--
Sharon F
MS MVP - Windows XP Shell/User