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SpywareBlaster and Spybot Search & Destroy. Charryl Chessman jr. 03-06-2007
Posted by Charryl Chessman jr. on March 6, 2007, 12:42 am
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For reasons I don't understand the original message dated 1 March 2007
together with a response from PA Bear has "disappeared" from this
newsgroup.

Be that as it may and for the benefit to others, I am re-posting this
message as the friendly people from Wilders Security Forums have come up
with a fix. It is also suggested that a bug may exist in IE7 causing this
behaviour.

The link to the post can be found at the bottom of my original message :)
--
" In IE7 I have 'hardened' the Internet Security Settings considerably,
including disabling Active Scripting. Scripted websites which I absolutely
trust are added to Trusted sites. Among these are websites from highly
reputable financial institutions and Microsoft/Windows update sites.

This arrangement has been working for me just fine for a very long time.
However, recently some of these trusted websites do not open in the Trusted
zone anymore but instead trying to open in the Internet zone. Needless to
say that since Active Scripting is disabled in the Internet Zone the
websites won't open correctly.

I reset IE7 numerous times, always followed by enabling all (updated)
protections SpywareBlaster and Spybot S&D have to offer. The problem did not
go away.

Well, I reset IE7 again but this time without utilizing either
Spywareblaster and Spybot S&D and was pleasantly surprised that the websites
I added to the Trusted zone do open in accordance with my original settings.

I tested this arrangement by applying the protection/immunization facilities
(one at the time) provided by SpywareBlaster/Spybot S&D and same problem
recurred. To be sure, I conducted this test three times with the same
results.

Based on this, I am pretty certain that the protection/immunization
facilities of both Spywareblaster and Spybot S&D are causing this
occurrence.

I posted a write-up with respect to the above to
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/ and still awaiting a response.

In the meantime, could experts in this newsgroup please advise if it is
deemed to be essential utilizing applications such as Spywareblaster and/or
Spybot S&D for adding website to the Restricted zone?

What are the downsides for not using these services?

Are there other alternatives available?

TIA,
Charryl Chessman jr. "
--
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?p=958015
--



Posted by Charryl Chessman jr. on March 6, 2007, 12:59 am
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oops - I checked in the 'wrong' n/group, sorry about that.

> For reasons I don't understand the original message dated 1 March 2007
> together with a response from PA Bear has "disappeared" from this
> newsgroup.
>
> Be that as it may and for the benefit to others, I am re-posting this
> message as the friendly people from Wilders Security Forums have come up
> with a fix. It is also suggested that a bug may exist in IE7 causing this
> behaviour.
>
>
> http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?p=958015


Posted by Heather on March 6, 2007, 11:59 am
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Yeppers....I was just going to suggest that very thing....wrong ng.

However, have you not considered removing IE7??? I had it on here for
about 4 days and turfed it. I could see absolutely NO advantages and
plenty of disadvantages. I just stick to Firefox......works better.

There is a news group handling the gazillion IE7 complaints called
microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general which can be found by clicking
on the following link......

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general

There were approximately 23,000 posts when I checked.......not a very
happy bunch of people!!

Heather

> oops - I checked in the 'wrong' n/group, sorry about that.
>
>> For reasons I don't understand the original message dated 1 March
>> 2007 together with a response from PA Bear has "disappeared" from
>> this newsgroup.
>>
>> Be that as it may and for the benefit to others, I am re-posting
>> this message as the friendly people from Wilders Security Forums
>> have come up with a fix. It is also suggested that a bug may exist
>> in IE7 causing this behaviour.
>>
>>
>> http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?p=958015
>





Posted by Charryl Chessman jr. on March 7, 2007, 11:57 pm
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> However, have you not considered removing IE7??? I had it on here for
> about 4 days and turfed it. I could see absolutely NO advantages and
> plenty of disadvantages. I just stick to Firefox......works better.

Actually, I was pretty happy with IE7, but will give Firefox a try.

> There is a news group handling the gazillion IE7 complaints called
> microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general which can be found by clicking
> on the following link......
>
> news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general
>
> There were approximately 23,000 posts when I checked.......not a very
> happy bunch of people!!

I knew about the IE n/g; (I plainly fouled-up by sending a message to the
wrong group, oh well :)). Yes, it's demoralizing to read the various posts
therein...definitely not recommended for the clinically depressed :)

CC jr.


Posted by Rhonda Lea Kirk on March 8, 2007, 12:01 pm
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> In-line response.
>
>
>> However, have you not considered removing IE7??? I had it on here
>> for about 4 days and turfed it. I could see absolutely NO
>> advantages and plenty of disadvantages. I just stick to
>> Firefox......works better.
>
> Actually, I was pretty happy with IE7, but will give Firefox a try.

IE7 has its uses. I use both.

>> There is a news group handling the gazillion IE7 complaints called
>> microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general which can be found by
>> clicking on the following link......
>>
>> news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general
>>
>> There were approximately 23,000 posts when I checked.......not a very
>> happy bunch of people!!
>
> I knew about the IE n/g; (I plainly fouled-up by sending a message to
> the wrong group, oh well :)). Yes, it's demoralizing to read the
> various posts therein...definitely not recommended for the clinically
> depressed :)


If you go to http://www.mozilla.org/support/, you will find instructions
for using mozilla's newsgroup.

I found more than 48,000 posts at mozilla.support.firefox, so I don't
think Firefox advocates should make the claim that the number of posts
on a dedicated ng is an indication that something is wrong with the
browser.

--
Rhonda Lea Kirk

Happiness limits the amount of suffering one is
willing to inflict on others. Phèdre nó Delaunay



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