Re: Tools Button

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From: oops!! (notme_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 04/23/04 

Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 08:16:53 +0100

Carol,

You need to fix your registry:

http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/RepairTabs.reg
1) Restores the missing Tabs in IE (usually spyware related)
2) Unlocks the grayed-out Home Page section
3) Removes the Administrator message in Internet Options

After that, download Ad-Aware from here:
http://lavasoft.element5.com/support/download/
Install, UPDATE and run.
You may need to reboot and run again to clean all the nasties that cannot be
deleted at once ("in use").

Also excellent is SpyBot Search & Destroy available here:
http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=download
Install, UPDATE and run.
You may need to reboot and run again to clean all the nasties that cannot be
deleted at once ("in use").

Even if Ad-Aware and SpyBot S&D are similar, they do clean different things.
You should have both of them and use REGULARLY.

You can also install "preventive" software that will help you control these
nasties:

SpywareBlaster:
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
Avoids malicious Active X installs.
Advantage: no system resources used!!!
Just download, install and UPDATE.

SpywareGuard:
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareguard.html
Monitors for attempts to install malicious software.

All of them extremely useful but you must keep them UPDATED.

Zee

"Carol" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:309f01c428c8$be287830$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> For whatever reason, I cannot access the Tools button to
> change the internet settings. It is giving me an error
> message that a restriction was placed on access to this
> function and to see our system administrator. This is a
> home computer and is not controls by anyone else.
> Can someone help me restore access to this function?
> Thank you

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