active x and outlook express

[Guest]

i have a problem with active x information bar showing up on every single
website i go to. HOW DO I TURN THIS OFF?!?! it is annoying as hell. And I am
not allowed to change the security settings for the different zones, under
Internet Options. I want to change the settings for the internet zone, yet it
wont let me go below medium? A dialogue box pops up and says it is under the
recomended zone, well it seems like the required zone, and i want to change
this.

Also when i am in outlook express reading email, i click on a link, and it
does nothing, i have to right click and copy shortcut, how do i get the link
to open up into a website window. it happens on even some links in IE, when
they are supposed to open another site, nothing happens, i have to right
click and copy shortcut, which i then precede to copy into the address bar of
another window....VERY FRUSTRATING
please help

 

[Kelly]

Run this combo, all of them!

Run Ad-Aware SE, Spybot and HijackThis:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads31.html

Note: Update each program, once installed, before running.

Can deal with the latter, later. Good luck and keep us posted.

--
Happy Holidays,
Kelly (MS-MVP)

Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

Also when i am in outlook express reading email, i click on a link,
and it does nothing, i have to right click and copy shortcut, how do
i get the link to open up into a website window. it happens on even
some links in IE, when they are supposed to open another site,
nothing happens, i have to right click and copy shortcut, which i
then precede to copy into the address bar of another window....VERY
FRUSTRATING
please help

From http://www.fjsmjs.com/OE/nolinks.htm

Open Windows Explorer.
Go to Tools | Folder Options | File Types.
Scroll down to URL:HyperText Transfer Protocol and select it.
Click Edit or Advanced, depending on your Windows version.
Select 'open'.
Click Edit.

"Application used to perform this action" should read:

"C:\PROGRAM FILES\INTERNET EXPLORER\iexplore.exe" -nohome
(Check the path to iexplore.exe to make sure that is correct and use the
double quotes.)

DDE should be checked and in the boxes below it you should have:

#1:
"%1",,-1,0,,,,
#2
IExplore
#3 (blank)

#4
WWW_OpenURL

URL:HyperText Transfer Protocol with Privacy should be the same.

Sometimes it is necessary to uncheck Use DDE.

If that doesn't fix it, go to Start | Run and type

regsvr32 urlmon.dll

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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE
Please respond in Newsgroup only. Do not send email
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Protect your PC
http://www.microsoft.com./athome/security/protect/default.aspx

 

[Guest]

ok i did that, now what do i do with the hijackThis log file that i saved? i
ran both spybot and adaware.

 

[Rock]

ok i did that, now what do i do with the hijackThis log file that i saved? i
ran both spybot and adaware.

:

I suggest you post it to one of the specialty forums, _not_ this one:

Forums to Interpret HijackThis Logs:

http://www.spywareinfo.com/forums/
http://forum.aumha.org/viewforum.php?f=30
http://forums.tomcoyote.org/
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/

 

[Brian S. Craigie]

You can post your log file into the web page at www.hijackthis.de and it
will analyse it for you automatically. It is not 100%, but it is a good
start.

Brian

 

[Guest]

still not working, ive done everything that youve suggested, and my internet
is still FU**** up, i have comcast mail service, and when i click on email
and sign in, the page turns white and i have to go back and copy the
hyperlink so that i can paste it into another browser and paste it to get the
page to work, WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS $HITBOX computer!!!!?!?!