Vista 64 Bit Question

[Naeeldar]

I had to change my security settings for IE because it would not allow me to install an activex controller I needed.

Now I'm getting annoying pop ups on the browser and bottom right corner icon. Anyway to disable that? It's beyon annoying.

Also everytime I click on install for a new game or something I'm getting annoying pop ups from Vista. Security is nice and all I guess for some but this is rediculous added steps any ways to turn this off also?

Thanks in advance.

 

[ViRGE]

Just reset IE to its default security settings.

 

[Naeeldar]

Originally posted by: ViRGE
Just reset IE to its default security settings.

I guess thats better then getting message in IE non stop. Found away to turn off security center messages.

Now if I could just get IE to turn off. I shold be able to setup my browser way I want.

Sigh guess it's time to download firefox.

 

[ViRGE]

I'm a bit lost here, now that you've reset the security settings what is IE doing that you don't want it to do?

 

[Naeeldar]

Originally posted by: ViRGE
I'm a bit lost here, now that you've reset the security settings what is IE doing that you don't want it to do?

I reset security settings for Vista.

but I had to set IE back to original higher security settings (would't let me install an activex controller). So I lower security settings on IE. Problem was each time I started IE after that it would give me a blank webpage (instead of going to homepage) and giving me a security error. Plus there is the annoying info line in IE that is telling me I'm unsecure and should let them fix my settings.

Just annoying that I can't modify the way I want. Going to switch back over to Firefox.

 

[ViRGE]

I assume the ActiveX controller is just for a specific site? Add that site to your list of trusted domains so that it gets treated at a lower security level than other webpages. Setting the global IE security standards lower is not a smart thing, IMHO.

 

[Naeeldar]

Originally posted by: ViRGE
I assume the ActiveX controller is just for a specific site? Add that site to your list of trusted domains so that it gets treated at a lower security level than other webpages. Setting the global IE security standards lower is not a smart thing, IMHO.

Smart or not I should be able to if I want to. Honestly I've gone 6 years now with low security settings and no antivirus with never an issue. If you use sites you can trust it's a non issue.

Either way since it's a pc I bought in built I should be able to do it if I want to without annoying security messages.

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: Naeeldar

Originally posted by: ViRGE
I assume the ActiveX controller is just for a specific site? Add that site to your list of trusted domains so that it gets treated at a lower security level than other webpages. Setting the global IE security standards lower is not a smart thing, IMHO.

Smart or not I should be able to if I want to. Honestly I've gone 6 years now with low security settings and no antivirus with never an issue. If you use sites you can trust it's a non issue.

Either way since it's a pc I bought in built I should be able to do it if I want to without annoying security messages.

No. I'm sorry to disagree with you but no. What you're saying is that you want any webpage to be able to send and activate executable code to your computer on a whim. As a global setting this is beyond dangerous or foolish, it's madness. All it would take is a single site, a single link, perhaps a single insecure page for someone to put on there an ActiveX control that can completely wreck your computer.

You aren't allowed to drive a car without a seatbelt, you also are not allowed to drive a computer that lets anyone on the world wide web upload and execute code.

If you want to establish a list of sites you trust with this ability that's fine, IE won't continually bug you about it. But as a global setting it's doing exactly the right thing by making sure you don't use such insane settings.

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: Naeeldar

Originally posted by: ViRGE
I assume the ActiveX controller is just for a specific site? Add that site to your list of trusted domains so that it gets treated at a lower security level than other webpages. Setting the global IE security standards lower is not a smart thing, IMHO.

Smart or not I should be able to if I want to. Honestly I've gone 6 years now with low security settings and no antivirus with never an issue. If you use sites you can trust it's a non issue.

That's riskier than you think, and you might never see any visible symptoms indicating that you have an "issue," because it may not be in the bad guys' interest to show symptoms, not if what they want is to use your system to send untraceable Spam for them (to name just one modern scenario).

A recent study estimated that more than half of the dangerous sites nowdays are what you'd consider normally safe (before the bad guys compromise them, that is). I saw on a security blog a few days ago that several hundred thousand normally-safe sites were compromised recently. Again. Welcome to 2008, where it eventually pays to keep your guard up.

 

[Naeeldar]

Sigh maybe I didn't explain it well enough but I just wanted it to when I accepted the installation of activex on my and manually hit install on a site I want it to always install.

The way it was setup was if it did not have a signature it would not install even if I was manually hitting install. That type of a security bothers me greatly.