ActiveX Download Error, Won't Work

[B.Rosman]

Whenever I go to a site that has a download area, like
Windows Update or McAfee Virusscan Update, I get this
message: "Your current security settings prohibit ActiveX
controls on this page." I never see the Security
Certificate warning and can't go any farther.
No matter how I adjust the IE settings, even if I make it
the absolute least secure I can make it, and enable every
single ActiveX option, I still get the same message.
I have suspicions about a worm or a virus, but the virus
checker doesn't find any infections.
On a related note, when I go into REGEDIT to edit the
registry. if I don't touch the keyboard for 5 seconds then
it automatically closes on me. If I go to Task Manager and
stop the SMSC.EXE and CRTMON.EXE process, then it stays
open.
There are very suspicious things happening on this Dell
laptop but so far I can't prove that there is a virus or
worm.
Any ideas what's going on here?

B. Rosman
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[Smoker]

Whenever I go to a site that has a download area, like
Windows Update or McAfee Virusscan Update, I get this
message: "Your current security settings prohibit ActiveX
controls on this page." I never see the Security
Certificate warning and can't go any farther.
No matter how I adjust the IE settings, even if I make it
the absolute least secure I can make it, and enable every
single ActiveX option, I still get the same message.
I have suspicions about a worm or a virus, but the virus
checker doesn't find any infections.
On a related note, when I go into REGEDIT to edit the
registry. if I don't touch the keyboard for 5 seconds then
it automatically closes on me. If I go to Task Manager and
stop the SMSC.EXE and CRTMON.EXE process, then it stays
open.
There are very suspicious things happening on this Dell
laptop but so far I can't prove that there is a virus or
worm.
Any ideas what's going on here?

I think it's a bug in IE 5.5 and IE 6. There's too many people posting here
with the same problem. To get Window's updates, go to www.bigfix.com and
download BigFix (free). It will advise you what your system needs and
provide you the updates, with the option of refusing them after you read
what they're about, all on your desktop without messing around with M$ at
all. As for McAfee and other sites. Go to www.mozilla.org and download
Firefox. It's similar to IE without the problems and fast becoming the
browser of choice for many of us.