Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Fix Unable to access Internet Explorer settings with Spybot

The 'Immunize' feature is used without reading all the text in the Advanced mode.

Solution: Open Spybot in Advanced mode. Click 'Tools' section. Click 'IE tweaks' icon. Under the 'Miscellaneous locks' group, clear all the check boxes. Close all the Explorer windows. Restart the computer. Open 'Spybot - Search & Destroy'.

Details: Internet Explorer settings can be restricted from being accessed using the Locks function. This feature secures the settings from being changed by another user, but may block your own access.
1) Open Spybot in Advanced mode.
2) Click the 'Tools' section. (The 'Tools' screen appears.)
'Tools' screen.
3) Click the 'IE tweaks' icon. (The 'IE tweaks' screen appears.)
'IE tweaks' screen.
4) From the 'Miscellaneous locks' group, clear all the check boxes.
5) Close all the Explorer windows.
6) Restart the computer.
7) Open 'Spybot - Search & Destroy' to access the IE settings.

Thursday, January 22, 2009

How to Remove Brower Hijacker

If your computer is infected with spyware such as a browser hijacker, you really need to remove browser hijacker threats.

What is a browser hijacker? It is a malicious software program (also known as malware). It usually comes in the form of a web browser plugin that changes settings on your web browser in order to change the default home, search or error page. What it does it that it redirects a user to internet sites that they would not waant to go to. A browser hijacker can also record all the web pages a computer user goes to. That information is then sent to a third party. So, let's say you make a banking transaction online. This spyware could then allow someone else to get a hold of your personal banking and credit information, and make it easy for you to be a victim of identity theft. Just about all browser hijackers are made with the purpose of trying to get some type of money out of you. This type of spyware is often installed without the user's explicit consent.

So, I think we have clearly established how important it is to remove browser hijacker threats from your computer. But how do you go about it? You can try to do it on your own, but they can be very hard to find. Your best option is to get a spyware remover. It will scan your PC for any threats, and list them for you, letting you delete them with a mouse click. But it will also work to keep future browser hijackers from invading your system.

The best way to remove browser hijacker threats is to use a spyware cleaner, and we have found XoftSpySE does the best job.

Monday, January 19, 2009

How to enable cookies

In this section i am going to discuss about browser support how to enable cookies in browser.Web sites like myExpedient.net and others require that cookies be enabled. To specify how your browser should handle cookies, follow the instructions below for your web browser version:

1. Select the Internet Options option from the View menu.
2. Click on the Advanced tab and scroll down to the Security option, and select Cookies.
3. Click on the appropriate radio button to enable cookies.
4. Click OK.

Windows Internet Explorer 5

1. On the Tools menu, select Internet Options.
2. Click on the Security tab, select Internet and then click on Custom Level...
3. Scroll down to the Cookies section and, under Allow cookies that are stored on your comptuer, click to select Enable.
4. Click OK and OK again.

Windows Internet Explorer 6

1. In Internet Explorer, on the Tools menu, click Internet Options.
2. Click the Privacy tab, and then click Advanced.
3. Move the slider up or down to select the level of security.
4. In addition to using the slider, you can override cookie handling clicking the Advanced Privacy Settings window and checking the box marked Override automatic cookie handling.
5. Click Accept.
6. Click Always allow session cookies.
7. Click OK and OK again.

Macintosh Internet Explorer 4.x and higher

1. On the Edit menu, choose Preferences.
2. Click to expand Receiving Files. Click Cookies.
3. Next to When receiving cookies:, choose Never ask from the drop-down list.
4. Click OK.

Netscape 4.x for Windows and Macintosh

1. Select Preferences from the Edit menu.
2. Select Advanced.
3. Select Accept all cookies.
4. Click OK.

Netscape 6.x and 7.x for Windows and Macintosh

1. Select Preferences from the Edit menu.
2. Expand the Privacy & Security category in the Preferences window.
3. From the list of options, select the Cookies subcategory.
4. Select the option labeled Enable all cookies on the right.
5. Click OK.

Opera for Windows

1. Click the File menu and select Preferences and then Privacy.
2. Set Opera to "Automatically accept all cookies and "Accept from all servers" .
3. Make sure cookies aren't blocked under "Edit server filters..." .

Mozilla

1. Open the Edit menu and select Preferences.
2. Under the Privacy & Security category, choose Cookies.
3. Click the radio button next to "Enable all cookies".
4. If you want to be notified when a web site tries to set a cookie, select "Warn me before storing a cookie."

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

How to Clear Your Browser Cache

When you use a web browser (Internet Explorer, Opera etc) and view web pages these files are automatically saved on your computer. These are known as browser cache or temporary internet files. This post provides browser support for delete cache from computer.

Each browser users a different location on your computer to save its ‘cache’, and each browser has its own way of clearing this cache. If these aren’t cleaned out regularly they can consume a large amount of space on your computer!

Below we show you a step by step method for cleaning browsers, Internet Explorer, Opera and Firefox.

Internet Explorer
The first step in clearing the cache/temporary internet files for Internet Explorer is to open a browser window, and select ‘Tools’ from the top menu and then select ‘Internet Options’ (last item).

Once this window loads up, we are looking for the ‘Delete Files’ button. Click this button then tick the box ‘Delete all offline content’, then click Ok. This can take a while to process if there is a lot of files to delete. Once done, click ‘Ok’ and close the control panel window.

Opera
To clean the cache in Opera open the browser then select ‘Tools’ from the top menu, and go down to ‘Preferences’. On the left hand side of the preferences screen, click the label ‘History and Cache’. On the right side of the window you will have a button that says ‘Empty now’, select this button. If you have a lot of files in the cache this can take a while to process. Once done, click ‘Ok’ then close the browser window.

Firefox
Cleaning Firefox’s cache is similar to the other browsers. First, open a Firefox browser window, and click ‘Tools’ from the top menu. Then go down to Options’. When the window has opened click on the Privacy icon (on the left). On the right hand screen, you will have a button down the bottom that says ‘Clear’, which is to the right of the word ‘Cache’. Click this button to clear the Firefox cache. Once done, click Ok and close the browser window.

Friday, January 9, 2009

How to optimize or reset Internet Explorer 7

Configuration settings in Windows Internet Explorer 7 may cause one or more of the following issues:

* You experience performance problems in Internet Explorer 7.
* You receive an error message in Internet Explorer 7. For example, you receive an "Internet Explorer cannot display the Web page" error message.
* Internet Explorer 7 stops responding.

This Post describes Internet Explorer support how to optimize or reset Internet Explorer 7 in Windows Vista to resolve these issues.

Method 1: Clear cached data in Internet Explorer 7
To determine whether a performance issue or an error message is caused by corruption in the temporary Internet files or in other cached information that is used by Internet Explorer 7, you must clear cached data. To do this, follow these steps:

1. Open Internet Explorer 7.
2. Click Tools, and then click Delete Browsing History.
3. In Delete Browsing History, click Delete All.
4. Click to select the Also delete files and settings stored by add-ons check box, and then click OK.

A progress bar is displayed to indicate that the browsing history is being cleared. After this process is complete, test Internet Explorer to verify that it works correctly. If issues still occur, try Method 2.

Method 2: Reset security settings for Internet Explorer 7
If you configure security settings to be too restrictive, you may prevent Internet Explorer 7 from displaying certain Web sites. To determine whether an issue is caused by overly restrictive security settings, revert to default security settings. To do this, follow these steps:

1. Open Internet Explorer 7.
2. Click Tools, and then click Internet Options.
3. Click the Security tab.
4. Click Reset all zones to default level, and then click OK.

After you do this, test Internet Explorer to verify that it works correctly.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Fix ISA Server 2000 Web Browser Problems

This post describe How to fix Problems with Web Browser if ISA Server 2000 Is Chained to an Upstream Web Proxy Server. This contains information about modifying the registry. Before you modify the registry, make sure to back it up and make sure that you understand how to restore the registry if a problem occurs.

If Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000 is chained to an upstream Web proxy server, you may experience unexpected delays, incomplete pages, random authentication warning messages, and so forth, when you browse the Web.

This behavior can occur if all of the following conditions are true:

* The downstream ISA Server computer is configured to require integrated authentication (NTLM).

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* The upstream Web proxy server is not configured to require authentication (anonymous).

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* You are using Internet Explorer as your client browser.

Under certain circumstances, Internet Explorer sends an extraneous NTLM authentication header on a connection that has already been authenticated with the downstream ISA Server computer by using integrated authentication. This may cause the downstream ISA Server computer to pass those credentials to the upstream Web proxy server. Because these credentials are for the downstream ISA Server computer, the upstream proxy server may return unexpected delays or responses because it is unable to process the NTLM credentials. The downstream ISA Server computer then passes this HTTP response back to the Web browser, resulting in unexpected delays, authentication warning messages, or other effects on the client computer (running Internet Explorer).

Note that you must have ISA Server 2000 Service Pack 1 (SP1) installed on your computer before you apply the following fix.

For additional information about how to obtain ISA Server 2000 SP1,
How to obtain the Latest Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2000 Service Pack

A supported hotfix is available from Microsoft. However, this hotfix is intended to correct only the problem that is described in this post. Apply this hotfix only to systems that are experiencing this specific problem. This hotfix might receive additional testing. Therefore, if you are not severely affected by this problem, we recommend that you wait for the next software update that contains this hotfix.

If you use Registry Editor incorrectly, you may cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that you can solve problems that result from using Registry Editor incorrectly. Use Registry Editor at your own risk.

To implement the functionality in this fix and then enable it, follow these steps after you have installed the fix:

1. Stop the Web Proxy service.
2. Start Registry Editor.
3. Locate and select the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W3Proxy\Parameters
4. Create a new DWORD value named RemoveAllProxyAuthorization. Give this new value a data value of 1.
5. Restart the Web Proxy service.

To revert to the original configuration, either remove the RemoveAllProxyAuthorization registry value or change its data value to 0 (zero). After you make either change, restart the Web Proxy service.

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