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Tool to fix IE nags and restrictions
"Mayayana" wrote in
: | 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. I didn't pay much attention to the last paragraph - I did not know what a HTA is, but I do not go to any pages (let alone running scripts) on anything but OB1 anyway to start with - and I told you what happened. snip This utility is not for everyone. It's for people who are somewhat handy and who want to control their own settings. No one fitting that description would willingly use IE. 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!) Yes, there are always exceptions. 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. I tried to find out, and I told you what happened. Let's drop it and wait for comments from grateful users of IE in this NG. -- "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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Tool to fix IE nags and restrictions
"Mayayana" wrote in news:j8qct3$uhl$1@dont-
email.me: IE MD is an HTA powered by VBScript. The doctor is ill. I guess it's that combination of IE and VB that gives me the running heebies. |
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Tool to fix IE nags and restrictions
On 11/1/2011 10:32 PM, Mayayana wrote:
| | 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. Small ding here, but *every* browser is just a fancy DOWLOAD MANAGER itself. FYI... 'Noid' has a good nose for things like this and oodles of background in spotting things like this plus doing research I thought there was something wrong with this "Internet Explorer Doctor" myself, same reasons. 'Noid' beat me to it. -- "**** this is it, all the pieces do fit. We're like that crazy old man jumping out of the alleyway with a baseball bat, saying, "Remember me mother****er?" Jim “Dandy” Mangrum |
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Why was this X-posted to win-98? (was: Tool to fix IE nags andrestrictions)
Mayayana wrote:
I posted this in the IE group, but not many people go there, so I'm posting here as well. Why has it all of a sudden become a common practice of cross-posting between a win-98 group and XP / Windows7 groups? Announcing: An updated version of a free tool. The IE MD (Internet Explorer Doctor) Will this tool run on windows 98? What possible valid reason do you have for cross-posting this to a windows 98 group? |
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Tool to fix IE nags and restrictions
On 11/02/2011 02:52 AM, thanatoid wrote:
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? I just went to the link the OP posted I may fool with it if I ever have the time I downloaded the developer's version of Windows 8 and have fooled with it a few times... |
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Tool to fix IE nags and restrictions
Mayayana wrote:
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. Thank you. I use IE8 and write my own HTA scripts frequently. Since I installed my own OS and browser, I don't have any of the restrictions that a preinstalled or business network computer might have, but I will add IE MD to my collection. One option that I don't see immediately available is making Zone 0 settings visible. Do you have any clues? -- Crash "When you get to a fork in the road, take it." ~ Yogi Berra ~ |
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Tool to fix IE nags and restrictions
| UserAgent=Mozilla/4.7 (compatible; OffByOne; &sys)
| | Anything here scream "download manager" at you? | &sys? I assume by that you mean that it reports the OS version, like "Windows XP", "Windows 98", "Windows 7". That's a problem because it's actually very rare, except when used as a spoof UA by download managers. Firefox and Opera both end their UAs with a version number, and while the IE UA used to end with the Windows version at one time (thus the download manager spoofs), these days Microsoft encrusts the IE UA with all sorts of things. I'm sorry about the inconvenience. All I can suggest it that you use another browser of adjust your UA. |
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Tool to fix IE nags and restrictions
"Mayayana" wrote in news:j8rjar$33e$1@dont-
email.me: Ironically, if the tool were an EXE you would have little way of knowing what's in it. True. I disable VBS in mine, I'd like to do that to JavaScript too but I use that myself, and it's worth the risk. I used to like the BASIC language, still do in its influence on Lua and Psion OPL, but so many of the recent forms popularised means to write bad code, bloated code, and I found disabling it the easiest choice to make. I also disable Java because that IS pretty much a sealed executable. Flash too, I distrust, same reason, plus it's very definitely exploited to do dodgy things. A system can crash by flash just because too much of it is on a page, it doesn't have to be malicious to do more harm than most genuinely malicious code can do. |
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Tool to fix IE nags and restrictions
"Mayayana" wrote in news:j8rhj1$mr7$1@dont-
email.me: I'm sorry about the inconvenience. All I can suggest it that you use another browser of adjust your UA. USER-AGENT can help, but I think many sites watch for behaviour, using timers, filters, etc. As the difference is like that between asking for a caller to show a printed name card when cold calling at a door, and having a simple burglar alarm that uses more than one of a group of basic triggers, the second method is entirely more capable of not being fooled. It doesn't have to be very smart either, it just needs wise choice of triggers, thresholds, durations... Google Maps use this to spot grabs on map tiles in bulk. I doubt they care about U-A but they're VERY sharp at spotting anything that moves in ways they're not happy with. |
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Tool to fix IE nags and restrictions
| Small ding here, but *every* browser is just a fancy DOWLOAD MANAGER
| itself. | I'm talking about actual download manager software. That's not the same thing as a browser. (An email program downloads files. That doesn't make it a download manager.) In general download managers are not necessary in the first place. I find that the typical download manager behavior is to download 2 or 3 full copies of everything. It doesn't make any sense. The programs are supposed to help speed up downloads and ensure they don't get cut off. But they jump in on 1 MB downloads and download 3 copies! Then there are the "scraper" variety. People go to a website and auto-download everything in sight. They're busy hoarding website content that they could never possibly use. In fact, they don't even take the time to figure out what the downloads are before grabbing them. (I'm not talking about personal opinion here. I can see how the software works in my own server logs.) Some download managers are much worse than either of those two cases. I first decided to start blocking them when I saw in my website server logs that someone had downloaded 36 MB worth of a 300 KB file. I'm not certain, but I think the program used was GetRight. It just kept calling for the same file, over and over again every 6 seconds, 100+ times in all. It's a lot like browser toolbars: Very little value. Potentially spyware. And often badly written. But download managers look techy and sophisticated to the uninformed. Unfortunately, blocking such software is not 100% reliable because while some identify themselves, some others use spoof UA strings. So occasionally someone like thanatoid causes a "false positive". |
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