Re: Less is more!
- From: Alan Adams <alan.adams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 20:03:03 GMT
In message <4dd8b5a72ejohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
John M Ward <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In article <866cb6d84d.Wendy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Wendy Gray <newsgrps@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > For once I am heartily glad that our wonderful platform LACKS an
> > internet 'feature'. I am, of course, refering to those *!$!* ActiveX
> > pop-ups.
>
> Oh goodness -- those things!
>
> > They used to appear at work only occasionally, now it's at
> > least one per screen and I'm sick of clicking 'NOOOO!!!!'.
>
> That's bad! I wonder why that's happening so much...
>
> > Sometimes the pop-ups just appear anyway. Thank goodness Oregano
> > kills them dead! (I've asked the technician to do 'whatever' to a
> > 'registry' in the network, but it ain't happened yet.)
>
> I'd press them on this, and also look at the browser's options as I am
> fairly sure there should be choices about how to handle (or even if to
> allow) ActiveX stuff like that. I'm assuming you can set options, as I
> can well imagine that some places would have that disabled, in part if
> not entirely.
>
> > Therefore, in any future upgrades of Oregano, please can it be kept
> > ActiveX incompatible?
>
> Sort of "InactiveX"...
>
You've probably got two different things. One is browser pop-ups, and
switching to Firefox as your browser is a good start to getting rid of them,
as it doesn't run activeX.
Alternatively block ActiveX in IE. You may wish to block it when run from
local sites as well as the internet. Internet Options, Security tab. Select
Internet, Click Custom Level, go down to the ActiveX controls and plug-ins
section. Turn all sections to disabled. Note that Windows Update now will
NOT work. Do the same if you wish for the local zone.
My choice would be to use IE only for Windows Update (where the ActiveX is
essential) and Firefox for everything else.
The second type of pop-ups are Messenger service messages, which are caused
by third parties making use of the Messenger port to force an on-screen
message. One particularly prevalent one is along the lines of
"Your registry is corrupt. Visit the following web site for help"
You stop these by disabling the Messenger service (which is not the same
thing as Windows Messenger). Use the services control, (My Computer,
right-click, Manage, Services and Applications, Services. Find Messenger,
select Properties, change Automatic to Disables, and click Stop.)
If your site wants the messenger service running, so that the Admins can
send you messages, e.g. "server XXY is going down, please log out", then you
should suggest to them that they block the Messenger port at the incoming
router/firewall.
--
Alan Adams
alan.adams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.nckc.org.uk/
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