REGFILE for greyed out Trusted Sites

[Curio]

Some spyware is greying out Trusted sites access in IE security settings - this will correct it

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Zones\2]

"Flags"=dword:00000047

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[Big Booger]

That is odd.. where did you find the fix?

[Curio]

Find?

[Curio]

I had a couple of PCs with some variant of CWS which adds a load of sites to the trusted sites zone. One site which caught my eye was crazywinnings.com. Once they are added to the TS zone the sites button on the TS zone becomes greyed out so you cannot alter or remove them. Originally I fixed them by finding the sites in the registry and then moving them to the restricted sites by altering the zone value from 2 to 4 under [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap\Domains\%unwanted-zone.com%] which is where the sites are stored. This wasn't a full fix though so I researched a bit into the zones themselves and by comparison found the right value - although on mine it is actually 67(dec), it changes depending on any selected values. As I am sure you are aware all of these dialog boxes are controlled by settings somewhere in the registry. The zone values are
0=My Computer
1=Local Intranet
2=Trusted Sites
3=Internet
4=Restricted sites

[egghead]

Nice work Curio!

You are making some wonderful contributions to the forum

cheers!

[MSNwar]

Curio, thanks for the tip. I realize this nextquestion is OT but it is bugging me.

I wonder, can the same or similar be done to remove or disable the new Google AutoLink and Yahoo Y!Q Toolbar Features?

Thanks,

Jeffery

[Curio]

Whether those dialogs are controlled by registry settings I don't know, I don't use any toolbars myself. For google searches I have added this registry patch -
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REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl]
"provider"=""
@=""

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl\ggl]
@="www.google.com/search?q=%s"
" "="+"
"+"="%2B"
"%"="%25"
"&"="%26"

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Once applied I just type 'ggl' followed by the query string in the address bar and it will open a google search i.e.
ggl password shadow intitle:"index of"
but then most of the time I would be using FireFox anyway. If you can find a 'flags' setting in the registry entries for the software it will be a control for something but messing around with it when you don't know what it does could have undesirable side effects. Third party addons often don't have registry settings that control them - it is down to the programmers.

[Curio]

Should have stated you are not limited to searching google this way you can add any search engine or multiple engines if you get the syntax correct. Its pretty obvious how to do it.

[MSNwar]

Thanks again for the tip. I have a project at scriptlance.com that better describes the process, http://www.scriptlance.com/projects/1108916558.shtml