Annoying Browser Message

[ChrisBolton]

For some reason, every single site I build seems to pull up the following security message in IE7:

'To help protect your security, Internet Explorer restricted this webpage from running ActiveX controls that could access your computer.'

I don't see this message popping up much at all with other sites. How do I remove it?

I even tried removing everything but the doc title, the head tags, and the body tags. I still get the same result.

Any help would be greatfully appreciated.

Chris.

[tedster]

This only happens with local files on your computer - not when the files are accessed on the server, correct?

If so, it was Microsoft's way of tightening up security holes, which ony become vulnerabilities when files run locally. Any html page that calls javascript or css tends to create this message in IE. The work-around I know is to have server software running locally on your computer and examine your pages through that. I've used Server2Go [server2go-web.de] succesfully - it's a free web server on a CD, based on Apache, and it includes Perl, PHP and MySQL.

I ran into this kind of trouble trying to create a "website on a CD" for a client - the full record of my adventures is documented in this thread: E6 SP2 and local "security" [webmasterworld.com].