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ActiveX error messages

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ArchStudent

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Hi,

I recently came across a problem with a computer using Windows XP Home Edition and Internet Explorer 6.

Certain web pages will not load, and each time they attempt to load I get an error message stating something to the effect of "Due to your ActiveX settings this page will not load, you must change your ActiveX settings in Internet Explorer".

Now I went through each setting default, lowest, middle, and highest security setting, but it still keeps giving me the error messages. I even tried the custom setting, enabling everything, and also trying it to prompt me... no change.

I found a Microsoft knowledge base article explaining the situation, and it told me to search the hard drive for these two files: iuengine.dll and iuctl.dll which were located in system32 folder in windows. I deleted every file for both on the computer. It was supposed to make the computer ask for me to reinstall the windows XP cd, but it did not such thing.

I am really stumped on this, and can not even go to Windows update to get the critical security patches needed for this machine.

Is there any way to remove ActiveX and reinstall it, or something else that I must do? I really need to install the security updates, especially for the Sasser worm.

any and all help is much appreciated 🙂

Thanks
 
If you NAV active, you will not be able to set the SECURITY LEVEL (it overrides it).

You need to DISABLE NAV, change the security level, then enable NAV.
 
Here is the strange thing, with NAV starts automatically when the computer starts, but the little icon that sits in the system task tray dissapears. When I do Ctrl+Alt+Del nowhere do I see the NAV executable in the Windows Task Manager Processes tab, or anything that resembles the NAV process.

The computer is also at 100% cpu utilization from the moment the system is turned on... I have no clue what is running for some of these files make absolutely no sense... here is one I found in the Windows Task Manager Processes tab: "laugh.exe"
 
can't do that, PandaSoftware's Pandascan online will not work due to the ActiveX problem, no online scanner will work 🙁
 
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