[guispeak] Re: Problem Downloading with IE

  • From: "Laura Eaves" <leaves1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 02:47:59 -0500

This is weird --
You are on the web page -- did you try hitting the applications key and 
arrowing down to "save to target"?
Maybe the link is to a file that executes a script of some kind that does 
this.
That's all I can think of.
If you have a low security level, then perhaps you have activex enabled, 
which can open you up to all kinds of software running on your system to 
implement some feature on the web page -- this can be legitimate or it can 
be malicious, but it depends on the link and the site and what you are 
clicking on the link for.
HTH
Good luck.
--le

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andy Baracco" <wq6r@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 1:29 AM
Subject: [guispeak] Problem Downloading with IE


hi listers,

Well, i am using a Dell Dimension 8400 with a 3 GHZ P4 processor and 512 MB
RAM running Windows XP Home SP2.  When i click on a link on a web site to
download a file, the Windows Search utility comes up and it appears that it
is looking for the file on my hard drive.  If i don't click on the link and
bring up the context menu instead, I don't get the usual menu that offers
"Open, Save to Target", etc. The menu says things like "Back, Forward, Save
to foreground", etc.  What is going on?  It's becoming almost impossible to
do something as simple as downloading a file.

Andy

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