Re: cannot set custom security level with XPsp2

From: ornto (notright_at_nospam.com)
Date: 12/09/04 

Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 20:38:04 GMT

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 11:47:29 -0500, "Jan Il" <abuse@localhost.com>
wrote:

>Well...I think I will need a bit more details from you to be able to get too
>specific. ;-)) What was the error messages that you got? The exact wording
>if you can would really help. Also, did you find any types of scumware on
>your system? If so, with which program, and did you post your HJT log for
>evaluation as recommended? Was it clean or did you need to remove anything?
>

Before installing SP2, I cleaned the whole computer from verious
scumware with the aid of SpyBot S&D, AdAware and TDS-3 (for trojans).
I installed SP2 just when I was absolutely sure that the system was
really free (no match during scanning).

I've asked my friend to send me the right message he got from his
system, I'll post his reply as soon as he sends it to me (we don't
live very near you know).

By the way, about the custom security level button greyed out in
Internet Explorer options: we found out that by logging in as user
Administrator, the button is accessible. It's not when logging in as
the other user configured on the pc (yet, the outher user is still set
as a computer administrator!). We tried to find out special values
inside
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet
Settings] - or -
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\Control
Panel]
like told in one of the previous posts in this same thread, but there
aren't!
And, logging into administrator account and trying to change script
setting from there, we noticed that in the default security level all
scripts are enabled :-(
This sounds like it's gonna be very complicated....

>This information will help me make a clearer determination of what your
>current situation is and what else may need to be applied. :-)
>
>If these steps do not resolve your problem, please post back to this thread
>with the details and any error messages.