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Tool to fix IE nags and restrictions
"Mayayana" wrote in
: I posted this in the IE group, but not many people go there I wonder why. so I'm posting here as well. And we could not be more grateful. Announcing: An updated version of a free tool. The IE MD (Internet Explorer Doctor) The IE MD has been around for years, but wasn't formerly updated for IE 7/8 in Windows Vista/7 until now. Funny, no mention of it anywhere in Google. OR on the jsw site. As much as we all enjoy spam, and attempts to send us to a malware site, this is pretty pathetic. Most people here are smart enough not to use IE. Not to mention NO "doctor" will fix IE. And the page you provide the link to claims my browser, about a thousand times better than IE, OffByOne, is a download manager. This is possibly because they know OB1 is immune to their evils. AT best, even if this is not the case, it gives me an idea about the author. WHAT could I possibly want to DL from his site? That kind of attitude is acceptable on sites with 10,000+ files (OK, 500 files and monthly traffic limits). -- "Well, Steve, I think there's more than one way of looking at it. I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it." Bill Gates to Steve Jobs, around 1983 |
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From: "Mayayana"
I posted this in the IE group, but not many people go there, so I'm posting here as well. Announcing: An updated version of a free tool. The IE MD (Internet Explorer Doctor) The IE MD has been around for years, but wasn't formerly updated for IE 7/8 in Windows Vista/7 until now. IE MD is an HTA powered by VBScript. It's designed to be a simple, one-stop method to eliminate nags, download restrictions, etc. Most of the settings it changes are normally hidden. Things like removing the information bar, stopping security nags, stopping messages that say things like, "Your current settings don't allow downloading this file", shutting off the Local Machine Lockdown restrictions, disabling risky behavior, etc. It's free, no-strings; being made available simply because people shouldn't have to go through the tedious work that it takes to find these settings and change them. http://www.jsware.net/jsware/iemd.php5 For scripters and "power users": An HTA is basically a webpage that runs in an IE browser window. Since the IE MD is just a scripted webpage, if you know HTML and VBScript you can edit, modify, or extend the utility as you like. Why disable Distributed Component Object Model in this "IE" Doctor fix ? Do you know what software you may inhibit in doing so ? What does it have to do with the original intention ? -- Dave Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp |
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"David H. Lipman" wrote in
: From: "Mayayana" I posted this in the IE group, but not many people go there, so I'm posting here as well. Announcing: An updated version of a free tool. The IE MD (Internet Explorer Doctor) snip Why disable Distributed Component Object Model in this "IE" Doctor fix ? Do you know what software you may inhibit in doing so ? What does it have to do with the original intention ? "original intention". If you can actually FIND this marvel, scan it for malware. It should be interesting what turns up. -- "Well, Steve, I think there's more than one way of looking at it. I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it." Bill Gates to Steve Jobs, around 1983 |
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I posted this in the IE group, but not many people
go there, so I'm posting here as well. Announcing: An updated version of a free tool. The IE MD (Internet Explorer Doctor) The IE MD has been around for years, but wasn't formerly updated for IE 7/8 in Windows Vista/7 until now. IE MD is an HTA powered by VBScript. It's designed to be a simple, one-stop method to eliminate nags, download restrictions, etc. Most of the settings it changes are normally hidden. Things like removing the information bar, stopping security nags, stopping messages that say things like, "Your current settings don't allow downloading this file", shutting off the Local Machine Lockdown restrictions, disabling risky behavior, etc. It's free, no-strings; being made available simply because people shouldn't have to go through the tedious work that it takes to find these settings and change them. http://www.jsware.net/jsware/iemd.php5 For scripters and "power users": An HTA is basically a webpage that runs in an IE browser window. Since the IE MD is just a scripted webpage, if you know HTML and VBScript you can edit, modify, or extend the utility as you like. |
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Tool to fix IE nags and restrictions
On 11/01/2011 10:43 PM, thanatoid wrote:
wrote in : I posted this in the IE group, but not many people go there I wonder why. so I'm posting here as well. And we could not be more grateful. Announcing: An updated version of a free tool. The IE MD (Internet Explorer Doctor) The IE MD has been around for years, but wasn't formerly updated for IE 7/8 in Windows Vista/7 until now. Funny, no mention of it anywhere in Google. OR on the jsw site. As much as we all enjoy spam, and attempts to send us to a malware site, this is pretty pathetic. Most people here are smart enough not to use IE. Not to mention NO "doctor" will fix IE. And the page you provide the link to claims my browser, about a thousand times better than IE, OffByOne, is a download manager. This is possibly because they know OB1 is immune to their evils. AT best, even if this is not the case, it gives me an idea about the author. WHAT could I possibly want to DL from his site? That kind of attitude is acceptable on sites with 10,000+ files (OK, 500 files and monthly traffic limits). I downloaded the utility on my Linux machine and it contains three vbs scripts If you want to inspect them, they are in plain text and you can just change the extensions to .txt and inspect |
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| Why disable Distributed Component Object Model in this "IE" Doctor fix ? | Do you know what software you may inhibit in doing so ? | What does it have to do with the original intention ? | DCOM enables running software remotely. A number of remote attacks take advatage of the DCOM ports 135 and 445. On a corporate intranet DCOM is often used, but on a stand-alone machine remote functionality is usually only a security risk. I've never had DCOM enabled, since Win98. It's unlikely that you need it, though it's possible that something like remote control tech. support software might use it. The point of IE MD is to save people a lot of work and research. Many of the security problems, nags and restrictions are poorly documented and/or have no setting in Internet Options. DCOM (along with remote WMI functionality) is just one related issue that's provided because most people don't know about it and it's connected with going online. I actually discovered DCOM in about 1999 when I was using the AtGuard firewall. AtGuard blocked ads and had a function whereby one could drag any ad that got through into a "rubbish barrel" graphic. On one site I saw an ad for Visual Studio and dragged it to the rubbish, but by mistake I used the left mouse button instead of the right, thereby clicking the ad. AtGuard then popped up and asked whether I wanted to allow DCOM to go out. Apparently Microsoft was intending to check my system configuration without my knowledge, via DCOM. |
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| And the page you provide the link to claims my browser, about a | thousand times better than IE, OffByOne, is a download manager. That's based on the userAgent string. Download managers are blocked because most of them are very sloppy, some are spyware, and none are necessary. It's not unusual to see a download manager download the same file dozens of times over, for no reason. The only way to filter them out is by typical UA string patterns. |
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| If you can actually FIND this marvel, scan it for malware. It
| should be interesting what turns up. | If you'd read the original post you'd know that there is no compiled software involved. Do you understand what that means? There's no EXE. There's nothing to scan. It's an HTA -- a webpage that provides functionality via VBScript. In other words, all code in the utility is plain text that you are free to view, study and edit yourself, if you understand VBScript. If you don't understand VBScript, the download also comes with a file that lists many of the Registry settings involved, so you can make the Registry changes yourself without using the IE MD. The only "sneaky intention" is to help save a few people from having to go through a lot of work fighting with messages that tell them things like, "your security settings don't allow you to download this file". This utility is not for everyone. It's for people who are somewhat handy and who want to control their own settings. You don't have to use it. I agree with you about IE. I don't use it myself and would never use it online. But a lot of people do use it. And a lot of people don't have any choice. (I have a blind friend who uses a screenreader named Jaws. Jaws only works dependably with IE. Imagine the frustration for a blind person attempting to download audio files, while the IE Information Bar is telling them that they've banned themselves from doing so!) If you honestly suspect you're dealing with sleaze, malware, or worse then the decent thing would be to actually find out before making nasty accusations. |
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"Mayayana" wrote in
: | | And the page you provide the link to claims my browser, | about a thousand times better than IE, OffByOne, is a | download manager. That's based on the userAgent string. Download managers are blocked because most of them are very sloppy, some are spyware, and none are necessary. It's not unusual to see a download manager download the same file dozens of times over, for no reason. The only way to filter them out is by typical UA string patterns. This is the string: UserAgent=Mozilla/4.7 (compatible; OffByOne; &sys) Anything here scream "download manager" at you? -- "Well, Steve, I think there's more than one way of looking at it. I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it." Bill Gates to Steve Jobs, around 1983 |
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philo wrote in
: On 11/01/2011 10:43 PM, thanatoid wrote: snip And the page you provide the link to claims my browser, about a thousand times better than IE, OffByOne, is a download manager. This is possibly because they know OB1 is immune to their evils. AT best, even if this is not the case, it gives me an idea about the author. WHAT could I possibly want to DL from his site? That kind of attitude is acceptable on sites with 10,000+ files (OK, 500 files and monthly traffic limits). I downloaded the utility on my Linux machine and it contains three vbs scripts If you want to inspect them, they are in plain text and you can just change the extensions to .txt and inspect I really don't care, because I haven't used IE since 2001. And WHAT exactly did you download? There is nothing called "Internet Explorer Doctor" anywhere to be found on the net. Or I am getting REALLY senile? -- "Well, Steve, I think there's more than one way of looking at it. I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it." Bill Gates to Steve Jobs, around 1983 |
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