Search Pane on IE6

[Riprorin]

Recently when I open the search pane in IE6, it wants to do a download from the search engine I'm using.

What's up with this?

Is it safe to open the downlaod?

 

[Lord Evermore]

Maybe, maybe not. None of us can know what this download is. We don't even know what search engine it is.

 

[Riprorin]

For example, when I do a search using the MSN search I get this download request:

File name: spresults.aspx
From search.msn.com

When I do a search with Altavista get this download request:

File name: iepane
From: search.msn.com

 

[Lord Evermore]

Hrmm...sounds like maybe your security settings are wonky, those would appear to be nothing but the results pages, and for some reason IE isn't simply displaying them but is considering them files that it can't view and needs to download.

Try setting IE's security tab back to a default like Medium. If that doesn't help, try reinstalling IE. You can get the installation program from http://www.microsoft.com/ie .

 

[Riprorin]

It may be because of a setting I selected in SpyBot. Is there any harm in using this feature in IE?

 

[Lord Evermore]

I've never used it, so I don't know what it might have done. If it adjusts IE settings to enhance security, then it may well have disabled something so that it doesn't properly display certain types of pages now.