ActiveX Settings Changed ???

[newtothis]

I'm not sure what I may have changed on my home PC running Windows XP Home
and IE 6.

All of a sudden, certain pages that I use to be able to display correctly,
won't let me anymore. When I try an open one of these pages (running
ActiveX) a error message displays saying:

"Your current security settings prohibit running ActiveX controls on this
page. As a result, this page may not display correctly."

How do I change these ActiveX settings back to the way they use to be? One
page that I run into this is while trying to use eBay (that is just one of
many examples, so it's not just eBay).

Thanks in advance for any advice to change these settings back to the way
they were.

Thanks again...

[Kent W. England [MVP]]

Since you use Outlook Express there is some chance/hope that you might
provide some feedback, so I'll give this a shot.

1) Some users think that a recent Windows Update causes this sudden
change. There are too many to rule it out. Let us know what you think.
You can uninstall updates from Add/Remove programs. What are the latest
updates that you installed and when?

2) You changed the Internet zone security settings for scripts. If you
went into Internet Options, security tab, Internet zone and fiddled,
then set the zone back to defaults. Toss the site in the Trusted zone if
that doesn't work. If trusted zone doesn't work, then definitely
something else is doing it.

3) You are running an anti-spyware program or jazzed-up firewall (NIS?)
in the background and it is intercepting activex controls and the web
site is interpreting this as a security setting that is too high.

--
Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows



"newtothis" > wrote in message
news:3eHTa.116877$OZ2.23341@rwcrnsc54...
> I'm not sure what I may have changed on my home PC running Windows XP
Home
> and IE 6.
>
> All of a sudden, certain pages that I use to be able to display
correctly,
> won't let me anymore. When I try an open one of these pages (running
> ActiveX) a error message displays saying:
>
> "Your current security settings prohibit running ActiveX controls on
this
> page. As a result, this page may not display correctly."
>
> How do I change these ActiveX settings back to the way they use to be?
One
> page that I run into this is while trying to use eBay (that is just
one of
> many examples, so it's not just eBay).
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice to change these settings back to the
way
> they were.
>
> Thanks again...
>
>

[newtothis]

Hey Kent,

I haven't done anything recently that I haven't done many times before
(that's why I'm so confused as to what might have caused this).

1.) I haven't run any Windows updates lately.
2.) I haven't gone into the internet security tab to fiddle with anything at
all.
3.) I do run SpyBot Search & Destroy 1.2. I have run this program in the
past without any problems, but I did run a check this morning before I
started noticing this new error message.

Could it be SpyBot. If so why all of a sudden and how to I fix my problem
with the current ActiveX settings?


Thanks again for the help...



"Kent W. England [MVP]" > wrote in message
...
> Since you use Outlook Express there is some chance/hope that you might
> provide some feedback, so I'll give this a shot.
>
> 1) Some users think that a recent Windows Update causes this sudden
> change. There are too many to rule it out. Let us know what you think.
> You can uninstall updates from Add/Remove programs. What are the latest
> updates that you installed and when?
>
> 2) You changed the Internet zone security settings for scripts. If you
> went into Internet Options, security tab, Internet zone and fiddled,
> then set the zone back to defaults. Toss the site in the Trusted zone if
> that doesn't work. If trusted zone doesn't work, then definitely
> something else is doing it.
>
> 3) You are running an anti-spyware program or jazzed-up firewall (NIS?)
> in the background and it is intercepting activex controls and the web
> site is interpreting this as a security setting that is too high.
>
> --
> Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows
>
>
>
> "newtothis" > wrote in message
> news:3eHTa.116877$OZ2.23341@rwcrnsc54...
> > I'm not sure what I may have changed on my home PC running Windows XP
> Home
> > and IE 6.
> >
> > All of a sudden, certain pages that I use to be able to display
> correctly,
> > won't let me anymore. When I try an open one of these pages (running
> > ActiveX) a error message displays saying:
> >
> > "Your current security settings prohibit running ActiveX controls on
> this
> > page. As a result, this page may not display correctly."
> >
> > How do I change these ActiveX settings back to the way they use to be?
> One
> > page that I run into this is while trying to use eBay (that is just
> one of
> > many examples, so it's not just eBay).
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any advice to change these settings back to the
> way
> > they were.
> >
> > Thanks again...
> >
> >
>

[Kent W. England [MVP]]

Run Spybot and undo your innoculations and see if your activex controls
will run. Spybot innoculates your browser against a big list of activex
controls and the ones you want could be in that list, although that
would tend to indicate they are spyware.

--
Kent W. England, Microsoft MVP for Windows



"newtothis" > wrote in message
news:3bKTa.118159$OZ2.23860@rwcrnsc54...
>
> Could it be SpyBot. If so why all of a sudden and how to I fix my
problem
> with the current ActiveX settings?
> >
> > "newtothis" > wrote in message
> > news:3eHTa.116877$OZ2.23341@rwcrnsc54...
> > > I'm not sure what I may have changed on my home PC running Windows
XP
> > Home
> > > and IE 6.
> > >
> > > All of a sudden, certain pages that I use to be able to display
> > correctly,
> > > won't let me anymore. When I try an open one of these pages
(running
> > > ActiveX) a error message displays saying:
> > >
> > > "Your current security settings prohibit running ActiveX controls
on
> > this
> > > page. As a result, this page may not display correctly."