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re: red crosses NOT images but pdf files
Sunday, July 1, 2007 at 8:42 am
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Posted by gewg_ (4444 messages posted)


|[...]both "save" and "save as" were greyed out.
|Checking on Google,
| Reuven Ben-Daniel
|
It makes me so proud when one of my students
takes it to the next level on his own initiative.

|the reason and solution was simple.
|[...]ie explorer[1] Tools-internet options-content -content advisor and dis-enable.
|[...]as no children use my computer,I can leave the content advisor dis-enabled. 
|
Now, see, I wouldn't have gotten that one in a million years.
1) No minors have ever had access to my system.
2) I stopped using Internet Exploder in 2002 when I switched to the Mozilla suite.
(It has evolved into SeaMonkey--and many people use it's little brother, Firefox.)

In 2004, the US Government's security experts advised everyone to
STOP USING INTERNET EXPLORER.
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=CERT++"Any+browser+other+than+IE"
cache 
of https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/323070
++zone-security+DHTML+ActiveX++significant-vulnerabilities
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1151967765
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1142663471


[1] "ie explorer" is redundant.
You'll notice that I call it "Internet Exploder"
(because of it's self-infecting nature).




Written in response to:
re: red crosses NOT images but pdf files (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Sunday, July 1, 2007 at 4:59 am)

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-red crosses NOT images but pdf files (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Mon, Jun 25, 2007, 11:49 pm)
*re: red crosses NOT images but pdf files (dhm: Tue, Jun 26, 2007, 12:16 am)
-re: red crosses NOT images but pdf files (gewg_: Tue, Jun 26, 2007, 2:02 pm)
-re: red crosses NOT images but pdf files (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Wed, Jun 27, 2007, 7:49 am)
-re: red crosses NOT images but pdf files (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Sun, Jul 1, 2007, 4:59 am)
*re: red crosses NOT images but pdf files (gewg_: Sun, Jul 1, 2007, 8:42 am)
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