Active Content

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Lew/+Silat

I get and active content warning window everytime I open up the newsreader
with Outlook 03... Ive turned on access to activeX reluctantly but the
warning still appears. Any suggestions? Ive turned off antivirus and
anyother security programs.



Lew/+Silat
"Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go thru life, son."
 
News reader I presume is OE. Tried the Plain Text option against HTML? Turn
it off in your newsreader.

Peter
 
Peter said:
News reader I presume is OE. Tried the Plain Text option against
HTML? Turn it off in your newsreader.

Peter
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Well it is the NewsR that comes up with Outlook. When I use the NewsR with
OE it doesnt appear.


Lew/+Silat
 
Lew/+Silat said:
I get and active content warning window everytime I open up the
newsreader with Outlook 03... Ive turned on access to activeX
reluctantly but the warning still appears. Any suggestions? Ive
turned off antivirus and anyother security programs.
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In Internet Explorer, go to your Local Intranet or Trusted Zone, click Sites
(and, for Local Intranet , Advanced) and in the "Add this web site to the
Zone" field enter "about:internet". Click Add. See if that helps.
 
Brian said:
click Sites (and, for Local Intranet , Advanced) and in the "Add this
web site to the Zone" field enter "about:internet". Click Add. See
if that helps.
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Brian that did the trick. Can you explain to me what this was all about?
Thanks so much:)
 
Lew/+Silat said:
Brian that did the trick. Can you explain to me what this was all
about? Thanks so much:)
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The DLL msoeres.dll contains the HTML that Outlook Express uses as the
display pag when Outlook Express is opened. In particular, the displays are
res://C:\Program Files\Outlook Express\msoeres.dll/frntnews.htm for the
Outlook Newsreader (i.e., OE started with the /outnews command line switch)
and
res://C:\Program Files\Outlook Express\msoeres.dll/frntpage.htm for OE
started normally. Those pages contain scripts that won't run unless
contained in an Internet zone that allows active content. I like to keep my
web browser really locked down, not allowing any active content unless I say
so. I noticed a scripting error one day when trying to start OE, so I
hunted around on the internet and found the references to those internal web
pages and entered one into IE. Then I added that web page into my Local
Internet zone and the OE scripting problem was gone. I looked to see what
URL appeared in the zone. To my surprise, I saw the string
"about:internet". So, when I saw your post, I realized it was probably the
same thing and made my suggestion.

By the way, there are several interesting thing you can see in that DLL.
For example:
res://C:\Program Files\Outlook Express\msoeres.dll/wab.gif
res://C:\Program Files\Outlook Express\msoeres.dll/newmail.gif
are two of the icons in that file.
 
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