continual page refreshing.

[wozelbeak]

hi all,
a friend asked me to take a look at her laptop.
she said whenever she got to a particular page on one of her favourite web sites, it failed to load and kept refreshing every second or so.
i cleared cookies turned of all fire walls and still it happens. i system restored to prior the problem but still it happens, any ideas?

cheers in advance.

 

[LukaszR1]

weird...
can you tell if there are any scripts running in the background that could be causing this?

Also, do a spyware scan.
http://superantispyware.com/

you never know...there could be something bad running in the shell of the explorer.
have you tried using firefox? safari? Opera?
Does it still happen if you use a different browser??

 

[wozelbeak]

Lukas,
dont think its a virus.
i think it is a faulty setting.
i am running a scan at this moment.they are using ie, and don't want to change.

ok, i have scaned for bad guys doing their thing and got a clean bill of health.
i guessed that it must be something in the security settings.
i have now come to the conclusion that it is a setting for activeX.

after changing a few settings the page now attempts to load and then pops up a box with:

"a script is accessing some software (an activeX control) on this page which has been marked safe for scripting. do you want to allow this?"

yes no


if i select the yes option, it attempts to load the page, then the prompt appears again! this continues.


anyone got any ideas on the configuration i should be using in the activex security settings?

thanks in advance woz.

ok update.
i disabled the option:

"initialize and script activeX controls not marked as safe for scripting"

seems to hve fixed it.