Re: How to set the internet group secutiry to high?

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From: Frank Saunders, MS-MVP (franksaunders_at_mvps.org)
Date: 10/27/04


Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:52:08 -0500


"minjie" <minjie@excite.com> wrote in message
news:a06d6e69.0410271025.37336bc4@posting.google.com
> "PA Bear" <PABear@mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:<OR6FJvuuEHA.3352@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl>...
>> minjie wrote:
>>> "PA Bear" <PABear@mvps.org> wrote in message
>>> news:<#$Vpu3ruEHA.3276@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl>...
>>>> Do you have Spybot installed? Did you use its Immunize IE feature?
>>>> --
>>>> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
>>>> MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE)
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, I do and I did. Is it the one that's producing the scenario I'm
>>> seeing? What should I do now?
>>> Thanks.
>>
>> First of all, please include all of previous message in your replies.
>>
>> See this page:
>> http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=faq&detail=24
>
> ------ my previous posting -----------
> Hello,
> I'm trying to follow the steps recommended by the following article
> for how to secure Internet Explorer:
> http://www.securitypipeline.com/howto/49901568
> but cannot set the internet group security to high (the first step in
> the article). For one thing, there are several items in the 'Internet'
> group (Tools--> Internet Options...-->Security tab-->Internet-->Custom
> Level). I assume I need to do it for each item separately, is that so?
> For another, every time I changed the original setting from 'Medium'
> to 'High' for any item (e.g., '.NET Framework-reliant components'),
> and click on OK or 'Reset', it seemed to have updated the setting but
> it actually did not, because when I went back, the setting is back to
> 'Medium' again. Any ideas on how to set them to 'High'?
> Thanks for any help.
> -------------------------------------
>
> According to the article in safer-networking.org, I should uncheck the
> two "Lock IE..." items in Spybot (Tools->IE tweaks), if I have used
> Spybot's Immunize feature. But I found that the two items are
> unchecked anyway. Now what else should I do?
> By the way, I posted this message yesterday morning but it did not
> show up. So I'm posting it again.
> Thanks a lot!

Close IE.
Open Regedit.
Find the value NoBrowserOptions and remove every instance of it.

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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE
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