Re: Websites Can't Save To Content.IE5 Folder

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Try undoing all changes you made and disabling all protection settings you'd enabled using Ad-aware SE Pro. From your reply to Sandi's post and this one, it sounds like it's the cause of the behavior.

1. CAN access web pages

Despite the behavior you state, are you able to successfully download the images from Webshots? (Most anti-malware experts recommend uninstalling/not using Webshots, Bill, and I suspect Ad-aware SE Pro is in agreement here, hence the problems.)
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), AH-VSOP



Bill F wrote:
1. CAN access web pages
2. As stated, DID run both Ad-Aware and Spybot (latest versions); results
given in post
3. Ad-Watch WAS running in background; I have since disabled it until I
can solve this problem.

> Forget about "downloading to [Content.IE5]". Are you able to access all
> web-pages using IE?
>
> What "antispyware" applications might you have running in background?
>
> Did you scan with Ad-aware SE v1.06 and Spybot v1.4 and check
> for/install updates for each before doing so?
> --
> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
> MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), AH-VSOP
>
>
> Bill F wrote:
> > OS: XP SP2, all updates installed successfully through and including
> > 11-Aug-2005
> >
> > On 10-Aug-2005, I suddenly started having problems with the
> > Content.IE5 folder.
> > This showed itself via certain IE sites and download attempts (e.g.,
> > downloading Community pictures from Webshots -- although this is only
> > one example) are unsuccessful. Every time an IE site tries to
> > download to that folder now, I receive an error similiar to this
> > (actual) one that came from Webshots:
> >
> > "The data file could not be processed because of this error:
> > c:\documents and settings\bill\local settings\temporary internet
> > files\content.ie5\8p61s2v\photodownload[1].wbz
> > was not found."
> >
> > Actions I have taken to attempt to figure out what is wrong and/or
> > resolve this include:
> >
> > * Logged in as another user to see if Content.IE5 was even there. It
> > is, but it is completely empty.
> > * Logged in as user (w/admin rights) and checked Content.IE5 of all
> > other users. The folder is empty in all cases.
> > * Ran the following registry check/fix utilities: Ace Utilities and
> > Regseeker. Neither found anything unusual.
> > * Ran Ad-Aware. While it did find 5 tracking cookies, removal of them
> > did not resolve the issue.
> > * Ran Spybot. It found nothing.
> > * Ran Symantec Antivirus check. It found nothing.
> > * Started machine in Safe Mode, cleared out the TIF and Temporary
> > folders, then went to Control Panels | Internet Options | General |
> > Delete Files and checked the Delete all offline content box.
> > Restarted, same problem. * Performed a System Restore to a point
> > about a week ago when I know this problem did not exist. Problem not
> > solved. * I read in one thread in a forum that moving the TIF folder
> > to another location, then moving it back to the appropriate Local
> > Settings folder would cause Windows to recreate the folder and its
> > required entries. I performed the move out of the Local Settings
> > folder and back into it, but I have had no success with that, either.
> > * Just to be on the safe side, I uninstalled and reinstalled the
> > Webshots software. It did not resolve the problem. (Reminder:
> > Webshots is an example only; it is non-exclusive.)
> >
> > I am completely baffled about what is going on and how to correct it.
> > I regularly (virtually every day) bathe my system, as it were, by
> > running the various clean-up tools of Ace Utilities and Regseeker, as
> > well as by running full scans with Ad-Aware and running Spybot --
> > something I have been doing now for a couple of years without
> > incident. In fact, today's running of Ad-Aware -- which as mentioned
> > earlier found 5 tracking cookies -- represnted the first time it has
> > ever found ANY problems since I started using it. (The only thing I
> > can think of is that I was Googling all over the internet last night
> > trying to find something ... anything ... that might help me with
> > this problem, and must have picked up these wayward tracking cookies
> > somehow along the way.) Anyhow, they're gone now.
> >
> > Does anybody have any thoughts on what is going on and how to correct
> > it? I have been unable to find anything helpful scouring the KBs, and
> > a search through all the Windows forums here on "Content.IE5" found
> > quite a few postings, but none that indicated the poster was having
> > the problem I am having.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for noodling on this one ...

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