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IE security is jacked up; help!

rushhound

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After weeks of wrestling to remove a browser hi-jacking my IE security is seriously messed up.
Security is too restrictive and apparently no scripts are allowed to run. I keep getting that annoying IE information bar that prompts me to ?Allow Blocked Content?.

I think I?ve tried all the standard resolutions, but welcome any suggestions.
I even reinstalled Windows XP Service Pack 2, but that did not appear to have any effect.
I?ll describe the symptoms and what I?ve tried thus far.

First of all, I cannot click any HTML links within Outlook Express email messages.
I have to paste all links from the email message to IE. I have Outlook Express selected as my email program within IE.

The biggest issue is that the IE information bar is activating on loading of nearly every page. I suspect all ActiveX controls and Java Scripting are being blocked.
I have gone into the security tab of IE and set all options to "enable" or to the least restrictive option. It is as if these controls have no affect. I have set the internet zone back to ?default? and the information bar continues to activate.

The MS help suggested that I add sites to my ?trusted sites?, but when I select trusted site on the security tab of IE, the ?sites? button is grayed out so that I cannot add any sites or see if any sites are there.

I would love to be able to set IE back to its default/original security settings, but I cannot seem to accomplish that. Thanks for any suggestions.
 
Do you have SpyBot installed? SpyBot Search & Destroy has some settings that will decrease IE functionality to increase security. Like you can't change the homepage and such. Maybe you turned on security in some 3rd party software like SpyBot and forgot about it.

Make sure to set all security and privacy settings back to default or medium or similar. On the advanced tab I think there is a button for default as well.
 
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