Re: "Scripts are safe" prompt

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From: BruceHallman (hallman_at_gmail.com)
Date: 11/16/04 

Date: 16 Nov 2004 12:56:48 -0800

"lindy" wrote
>I get a prompt box with "Scripts are usually safe"

Your situation might be different than mine, but I was struggling
with a similar problem, and found a solution which I will post
here, hopefully to be of help to others.

In my case, two websites I commonly frequent, gmail and craigslist,
all of a sudden started presenting the 'scripts are usually safe'
dialogues, three or four times, every time I refreshed a screen.
[Using IE6 and XP Pro]. I could reset the Internet Zone security level
to 'enable' scripts to temporarily solve the problem. Yet, this
resetting of script security would be forgotten (not saved) when I
closed my IE6 browser, leading to more aggavation of a flurry of new
'scripts are usually safe' dialogue boxes every time.

After fumbling around, I discovered and concluded that Service Pack 2
newly restricts the security level for the Internet Zone to now be
a minimum of 'Medium' [which doesn't allow me to permanently 'enable'
for scripts in the Internet Zone].

I finally fixed the problem by adding gmail.com and www.craigslist.com
to my 'trusted sites' list, no more 'scripts are usually safe' messages.

This all is accessable from IE6 menu:
Tools|InternetOptions|Security Tab|Trusted Sites

While at it, I discovered it is a good idea to add known bad sites
to the 'restricted sites' listing too!

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/restricted.htm

...[and IE-SPYAD] walks you through how to do this.

Also, as an aside, I did the Spybot, WinPatrol and Ad-Aware cleansing,
and found lots of scumware hiding on my PC. I highly recommend you do
this too, as my antivirus software didn't catch and protect me from
scumware/malware [much of which I suspect was snuck onto my PC with scripts.]

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