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Posted by karl levinson, mvp on December 10, 2005, 6:41 am
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I suppose it's possible it could be fake, but it sounds real to me. I
wonder if IE is not learning this because McAfee is undoing the change?
>I posted earlier today about a spyware or malware problem and thought I'd
>share another observation.
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> Whenever I first go online and upload something like a search engine
> query, I get the familiar windows message box
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> 'Internet Explorer - When you send information to the internet, it might
> be possible for others to see that information. Do you want to continue? -
> [tickbox] In the future, do not show this message. - Yes No'
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> Whenever I tick 'yes' to proceed, and the request not to prompt me about
> this again is ticked also, my McAfee antispyware monitor alerts me to a
> change in internet security zones, and an unwanted popup appears failry
> quickly.
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> My question is, am I seeing a causal connection where there isn't one, and
> telling IE 6.0 to upload stuff ALWAYS changes security zones, or could
> this indicate something more sinister?
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> It also strikes me that IE 6.0 never 'learns' that I don't mind the
> possibility of others reading my stuff on the web - I used to only get
> this message once when I did a fresh OS reinstall. Now this message pops
> up every time I first connect to the web.
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