How to remove restricted site icons.

[SycamoreSam]

When I first installed Windows XP I kept getting a restricted site icon (red circle with a horizontal white bar) on random sites with no apparent common thread. No problem until I tried to place orders. I was not able to place orders.
So I reformatted and reinstalled Windows XP and set the restricted sites at the default level, as before.

My problem now is: I still get the restricted icon and at random sites but can place orders.(I tried once successfully).
To test this, I went to different sites at random: The following showed the icon: Drudge Report, USA Today, Gamespot, Hot Water and Steam Boiler Information, and CBS MarketWatch. To check further I even did a Google porn search: the first 6 sites were OK and the 7th showed the icon. I tried placing one order with no trouble

Summary, except for the oddball locations of the icon, I do not seem to have a problem. (I think)

I still want to delete the icon.

Suggestions would be appreciated.

SycamoreSam

 

[linney]

Are there any sites actually listed in your Restricted Sites?

Can you link this fault with any IE Cumaltive patches that you have downloaded and installed?

 

[gpalmer711]

Are the icons you are talking about in the status bar at the bottom of IE? If so it sounds like the privacy warning symbol. It normally appears when a site attempts to write a cookie to your system when you have settings that do not allow this. Alotof online shops require that you have cookies enabled to allow them to complete your order. This is mainly for use with the shopping carts that they use. You can check this by clicking on the icon next time it appears, it will then tell you what the site tried to do. You can also enable cookies for the sites that you want by clicking on Tools > Then Internet Options > Then Privacy Tab and then on the Edit button in the websites section.

Greg Palmer

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Any feed back is appreciated.

 

[bcastner]

Web pages can draw content from multiple sources, including third party sources. Thus, for example, you might visit

http://www.cnn.com

and encounter a widget on that page that doesn't work. But that widget isn't being drawn from cnn.com (which isn't even IE-SPYAD). In this case, you'll have to identify the sources for the content on cnn.com's home page. It's likely that the widget is being pulled from some third-party source (say, doubleclick.net) that IS in IE-SPYAD's list of Restricted domains and servers. If you can identify the source for content that isn't working, you can then remove the entry which is causing the problem from the Restricted sites zone.

It can be a bit tricky to identify all the sources for a web page's content. One good tip-off that a web page is drawing content from multiple sources is the "Mixed" zone icon that you might see in the bottom right-hand corner of Internet Explorer. A "Mixed" zone means that a web page is drawing content from multiple sources which fall into different zones. One of those sources is likely in the Restricted sites zone.

There are several ways to identify all the sources for a web page's content:

1. Info on the page itself

Hover your mouse over images (esp. banner ads) and other links and watch the bottom band of Internet Explorer, which previews the sites which are linked to. You can also right-click on images and look at the "Properties" for those images. Either method will provide some indication as to where page content is being drawn from.

2. The IE6 Privacy Report

In Internet Explorer 6.0, go "View" >> "Privacy Report." The Privacy Report gives you a rundown of "Web sites with content on the page."

3. Personal firewall logs

Most personal firewalls provide logging of some sort, and you can look through your firewalls logs to get some indication of the sources for a page's content.

4. View the HTML source

Go "View" >> "Source" to open the HTML source for a page. Looking through HTML can be a pain, but it does reveal all the sources for page content. Note: if the site uses frames, you'll have to open the framed page separately (right click on the framed page, then "Open Frame in New Window&quot. Then you can "View" >> "Source."