Yesterday, after running Hyjackthis, and eliminating some vagrants, Today I went on to check out some links for Wireless instructive and entered the How Stuff Works Site, which seems to be a "cake slice", with all the modern emenities, that you appreciate, that a great web page should have, when my expedition was rudly interupted by a message box from,

Microsoft Internet Explorer, . . and it reads, . . . . .

" Your CURRENT settings prohibit running Active X, As a result the page may not display correctly".

And during this advent the pages at first seemed hard to load and took some time doing so, or in one case opened and registered, "done", leaving behind a blank page.

When clicking back to the previous page, I encountered a problem with the back button arrow as it seemed to stutter a bit, etc., and not return back.

I am searching my computer for; Active X,

but have not found it on the, Local Disc C:,

However, . .  I did come across a notepad on my Local Disc C:,  reading on one page reading as follows;




This is my Web page about staplers. I think it's
pretty great so far. I'm an HTML master and
everyone should worship me.




I must have been on an insane bing if I put it there, but the frustrating

thing is, if I didn't, who did ?

Is there ever a way of finding out, if so how this magical moment took

place ?

Jp


First of all, it is normal to receive a message about ActiveX being disabled if it has, infact, been disabled on your machine.  ActiveX will not be "visible" on your machine as such because it is not a normal application.  ActiveX is a part of the Internet Explorer web browser that allows "plugins" to be used and active content to be displayed in your browser.  You can re-enable ActiveX in the internet explorer settings.  I will leave how to do that as a project for you because I BELIEVE figuring out things like re-enabling options in your browser is a good "project" that will teach you.

As for the HTML page:  If you did not write the page, there are several possibilities.  One is that you found a cached page from a webiste you had visited previously.  By saying cached here, I am referring to the temporary files that are stored on disk by the web browser to speedup loading of the most recently visited web sites.  If this is not the case then either you wrote
it (which I do not believe seeing as how you are unfamiliar with some of the
basic web browser functions) or someone else has access to the computer?
If none of these are the case, then it is very possible that you or someone
else with access to the computer downloaded and ran an application that
wrote that file to the computer as a prank.  If you have not noticed any
problems with your system (i.e. it's not running drastcially slower, Hijack This
can find no NEW problems on your system, and your anti-virus has found nothing) then there is probably nothing to worry about.

Hope this helps.  As for ActiveX, go to http://www.google.com and do a search
for ActiveX to learn more about it.  Remember, Google is our friend.Jp ....... Click on tools / Internet options / security tab then click custom level ....then scroll down and set the active X items as you want them to be or set them to medium.


dl65  Hello dl65,

I have accessed google and arrived at Internet Explorer ActiveX update

and found this;

Microsoft is releasing a software update to Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 for Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2)

So, regarding previous reference to (SP2), ( you asked me if I had it installed, apparently you were not able to tell by seeing the results of the, Logfile of HijackThis),  I would like to know, . .
since I will download this packet from MS in the very near future,
what will be the correlation with ActiveX, there seems to be many versions of ActiveX, and it may be possible it is included with (SP2), although, maybe I should be looking further ?

In any case I have found the following on Add/Remove, and think it may be useful to show it to you as it appears to me it may be installed as I realized that at one time I had installed it but somehow either kept getting messages that the installation was not complete or I had some other doubts and may have started to uninstallit. In any case there seems to be alot of hotfixes, with the possibilities I may be not needing some of these applications.

Would you mind taking a look at this and reply your comments and suggestions, as to what I've got here ?


Windows NT Messaging
Windows SR 2.0
Windows SR 5.0
Windows XP Hotfix KB823182
Windows XP Hotfix KB824105
Windows XP Hotfix KB824141
Windows XP Hotfix KB825119
Windows XP Hotfix KB826939
Windows XP Hotfix KB828035
Windows XP Hotfix KB828741
Windows XP Hotfix KB835732
Windows XP Hotfix KB837001
Windows XP Hotfix KB839643
Windows XP Hotfix KB839645
Windows XP Hotfix KB840315
Windows XP Hotfix Kb840374
Windows XP Hotfix KB841873
Windows XP Hotfix KB842773
Windows XP Hotfix (SP2) Q819696
Windows XP Service Pack 1a
WSEM Update

Regards,
Jp









Did it get your anser?dl65,
I hope this doesn't jar you, but concerning the following:

dl65  [/quote]

Quote

Jp ....... Click on tools / Internet options / security tab then click custom level ....then scroll down and set the active X items as you want them to be or set them to medium.

However if I am not mistaken, on the AOL 9.0 Security Edition , .Aaaaaaah , . . I don't think there is a tools / Internet options / security tab to click ?


Jp

I hope this doesn't jar you, but concerning the following:

you asked me if I had it installed, apparently you were not able to tell by seeing the results of the, Logfile of HijackThis)

Is there any particular reason you don't have SP2 installed and all the UPDATES as well ?

Were they not there for (SP2) ?