IE settings faux pas = evil zango

[weirdami]

A little bit ago I told the tale of how my AO longin didn't survive opening another window when viewing AO with the multiple window method. Well, I turned the IE security settings to "low" to see it it would work (it didn't). Well, I forgot to put the security settings back up, and I got this Zango Showtimes thing. I didn't expect it to install on my computer when I clicked it. I found out it was installed on my computer when Zonealarm said it that Zango wanted to access the Internet. So, I denied permission and tried to uninstall. No go. It the uninstall deal says that I should wait for all the Zango files to download and it wouldn't uninstall.

Anyhoo, how do I get rid of this thing? Is it evil beans? The Zango website even has a page for how to uninstall it, so you know they've had complaints. Too bad it doesn't mention the "wait for..." bit. It says it's all peaches and cream when uninstalling it, no problem. :-/

Spybot didn't find it and neither did AVG, so that route didn't work. Of course my IE settings are put back up. grrr.

[KennyR]

Deleting the files and corresponding registry entries usually works.

Once you do get rid of it, download Firefox or Mozilla, and never use IE again. Even after SP2 it's atrociously unsafe. Lose it.

[Chas916]

Download Ad Aware

AdAware Web Site

It is a free spyware/adware remover. Then stop using IE.

[weirdami]

@chase916

I used to use Adaware, but it went loopy when I upgraded to the new version a year ago so I switched to Spybot. Does AdAware recognize this one? I might get again it if it does.

I mentioned it in the thread I started about Firefox. The reason I'm using IE is because it loads faster on my 44 MHz machine.

[kd7ota]

I personally think spybot is a load of crap. Just was slow and didnt capture or fix anything. Ad aware seems to do the trick and fixed many of my problems where spybot kinda kept a thumb in its butt..  :-D

So try out adaware. It has gone along way and recognizes many of the adware that exists.  :-)

[Waccoon]

Well, I turned the IE security settings to "low" to see it it would work (it didn't).

What, are you a glutton for punishment?  :-)

If a site doesn't work with security/cookie settings set to normal... DON'T GO THERE!  :-(

I didn't expect it to install on my computer when I clicked it.

In your security settings, look for "Script ActiveX Controls Marked Safe for Scripting", and set it to prompt.  That solves 95% of your security problems right there.  Macromedia Flash is the only ActiveX control I know of that's actually worth running, anyway.

Firefox v0.8 is very buggy, though I still use it for some reason.  v0.9 would barely run for a few mintues before blowing up, and it eventually died on me, so I had to downgrade.

Of course, Amiga.org has loads of parsing errors it its HTML code, so that might be an issue, too.  A major sin:  

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If anyone has big Perl/PHP issues, I can probably lend a hand, if only to check the syntax.  There's just as many broken PHP scripts out there as wonky HTML documents!

I used to use Adaware, but it went loopy when I upgraded to the new version a year ago.

It's always good practice to uninstall an old version before putting a new one on, so that might be what went wrong (I didn't do this with Firefox 0.9, so maybe that's why it fried itself initially).  Try re-installing a "fresh" copy of Ad-Aware.  kd7ota is right: SpyBot Search & Destroy is a load of crap.

[weirdami]

If a site doesn't work with security/cookie settings set to normal... DON'T GO THERE!

I was trying to get AO to work. Besides, I'm sure it's not AO that's the problme, but IE. Now, if if want to post, I just relogin for each window I want to post on. Replying PMail's is weird, though, because I gotta click on the register link and login from there, then click the reply button again so the reply page fills that window. All these problems is one of the reasons I started thinking about Macs. This computer I'm on now was old in 1998 when it was given to me. :-)

AOS4, save me!