restricted sites

[Karl]

Can someone tell me how the restricted sites list gets into IE? By windows?
By Spybot? I think there may be some sites in there that are being blocked
that I don't want blocked and I thought I could delete the list and
regenerate it to the default.

I was looking at an article on about.com and when I tryed to go to the next
page, it showed as a restricted site in my status bar. There are restricted
sites in the list that have the word "about" in them preceded by a the
wildcard symbol (*). Could that be the culprit?

Karl

 

[Guest]

In Internet Explorer 6 (IE) choose Tools, Settings, go to the Content Tab and
change the classification settings.

These settings can be password protected, and furthermore you may have to be
an administrator to change them.

I can't remember the settings in SpyBot (I use MS AntiSpyware atm), but
3rd-party programs like Norton Internet Security can restrict internet access
too.

Check the settings in your antispyware, antivirus and firewall applications
to begin with and then check Internet Explorer.

By default Internet Explorer don't has any restrictions so someone have
changed it purposedly if the restrictions is in here.

If it's your parents' pc you'll have to talk with them about your opinion on
censorship, and if it's a computer in your office you should be working
instead of surfing the internet ;-) In the last case especially you should be
aware that the administration group can monitor every click you make in the
browser.

 

[Karl]

I am 40, so not a parental restriction : ) It is my home computer, so not
surfing at work : )

I think I used software that added a bunch of sites and then when I backed
up my files and settings using FAST, it copied those over to the new
install. I suppose the use of wildcards for some site names in the
restricted list, also makes accessing safe ones difficult. I wanted to be
able to delete those with removing something I shouldn't.

Thanks!

 

[Wesley Vogel]

SpywareBlaster | Protection | Restricted Sites

SpywareBlaster with the latest update includes 3387 items.

*.008i.com, for example.
Using the asterisk * as a wild card (represents any other character) in
front of .008i.com includes all the domains in .008i.com.

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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[Wesley Vogel]

I forgot to add...

SpywareBlaster's Restricted Sites protection provides one main option:

Restrict the actions of spyware/ad/tracking sites in Internet Explorer.

Adds sites to the Restricted Sites zone, to restrict the actions of the
sites in Internet Explorer.

Sites on this Block List may:

• Attempt to download/install spyware, adware, dialers, browser hijackers,
or other
potentially unwanted ActiveX/software.
• Attempt to use cookies (or other methods) to uniquely identify and/or
track a user.
• Attempt to exploit browser vulnerabilities for potentially malicious
purposes.
• Attempt to use browser functions to force advertisements on the user (that
may also try
to force the download/installation of unwanted software).

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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[Karl]

to be specific I tryed to print coupons from www.smartsource.com and had
problems and also had problems with reading pages on www.about.com . In my
restricted sites I have entries with *.smart and *.about for other sites.
When I go to either of the two above sites it says restricted below. I can
still browse the pages, but with the coupon site was unable to print and on
about.com was taking a sample A+ test but was unable to go to the next page.

Thanks for this and any other info

Karl

 

[Karl]

Deleted the restricted sites and reinstalled spybot. Now some of the sites
starting with "smart" or "about" are not in there. Not sure how they got
there to begin with, but maybe this will solve those problems anyway