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I found the following page containing postings made in 2004: [webmasterworld.com...] Somebody gave the following explanation:
"Sometimes the 'Content Advisor' gets switched on which can gray out the 'save target as'. Have a quick look at 'Tools > Options > Content tab, and see if the 'Content Advisor' has been enabled."
When I try to disable the content advisor, I am asked for a "supervisor password". I am the only user of my laptop and am administrator. However, my password does not work!
Also, I have MP3 files on some of my websites and want to put HTML code that enables the files to be saved by users who have this problem. I want a left-click on an MP3 file to download the file rather than opening it. Can anybody please tell me how to write an HTML link that does this?
To my knowledge Content Advisor is something that has to be manually enabled. It's not a default setting, or something that is commonly turned on without ones knowing.
Here's the IE6 description of Content Advisor:
[microsoft.com...]
I did not enable the content advisor and nobody else uses my laptop.
I'm having problems with bots on my system; Spybot helps a lot but does not get rid of them all; I'm also using a ZoneAlarm firewall and Avast virus checker. Maybe a bit/virus/worm enabled Content Advisor for me! Has anyone else experienced the same problem?
I've been having advertising windows popping up (they tend to disappear after running Spybot but get installed again) and I know there's still at least one bot interfering with Internet Explorer because some keypresses are ignored - I'm typing this comment in using a different text editor and will copy and paste it.
What I don't understand is why Content Advisor would stop me from saving an MP3 file using "save target as", but allow me to left-click on it to play the song in IE7 and then use "save as" to save the song to my laptop! According to the page you gave a link to, Bill, Content Advisor prevents me accessing certain sites and I haven't had a problem with accessing any websites (well, sometimes I get an error and have to refresh)...
If you're not already using a "big name" AV program, buy one. Whatever you're using now doesn't seem to be doing the job. If buying one is not an option, Trend, Symantec, Microsoft, and others have online virus scanners. For adware/spyware, there's Lavasoft and probably others. Scan, scan, and scan some more until you're sure the system is 100% clean.
I don't know how to regain control of Content Advisor if it's been hijacked to use a password that you don't know. A web search might turn up something. The CA password might be stored in the registry under the Administrator account. Don't know, though. Be careful if the trail leads you to where you have to edit the registry.
I believe that if there is an mp3 player available, left-click will always launch it. To get around that, you could put the mp3 in a zip file. A click on that link will give your users the ability to download it instead of play it.
Once you have a clean install of everything take a full image backup of the system, burn it to a few DVDs, and keep it handy in case something like this happens again.
