RE: ActiveX disabled - even when it's not.

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From: Rho_1r (Rho_1r_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 12/28/04 

Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 13:13:03 -0800

Firefox has no Active X,,,http://www.surferbeware.com/free-downloads.htm,
further do you have Java Installed ? can get at here
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html, You may want to download update
to windowsupdate also so that you can get to V5 , if you cany access windows
update, Firefox may be the problem, may need to run Windows Explorer to
to access windowsupdate site.
                              Rho_1r(VIP)

"Andy Lord" wrote:

> I've just spent a frustrating day 'sorting out' my sister's pc. It's less
> than a year old running XP Home SP1 completely unpatched and was riddled
> with spyware, malware, trojans and viruses. It had an antivirus on it that
> hadn't been updated in over 6 months and an old copy of Adaware 6 that must
> have been updated around he same time. It was running Kerio but it was set
> to allow access to the internet from any application without any warnings!
> Surprisingly it also had current versions of Firefox and Mozilla on it with
> Mozilla set as the default browser. Apparently one of her friends is a
> computer buff (!) and he checks her system every now and again and he
> installed the alternative browsers for her as they were 'safer'.
>
> Having cleaned up the system I attempted to run Windows Update only to get a
> message that I needed to change the browser settings to allow ActiveX
> controls. On checking the IE browser settings I found that there should have
> been nothing to stop ActiveX controls running as intended. I checked,
> re-checked and checked again, then moved all zones to 'Low' settings and
> still got the same response.
>
> I uninstalled and re-installed IE from the XP disc with restarts in between.
> Still no joy.
>
> I tried installing SP2 from a disc and got a 'file not found' error message.
>
> Could the 'computer buff' have used some application to stop ActiveX from
> being enabled? Could the installation of Firefox 1.0 or Mozilla 1.7.5 (I
> think) have locked the ActiveX settings.? Or is this the work of one of the
> viruses etc?
>
> I also noticed that I can't reach Shields Up at
> http://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?rh1dkyd2 using IE but I can using Firefox or
> Mozilla on the same system.
>
> Has anyone any idea of what's going on and what I can do to get the system
> cleaned up. uipgraded and functional?
>
> Andy
>
>
>

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