Content Advisor in IE 5.5

Post #23,513 by warmachine 1/8/02 1:15:58 PM Reply	Content Advisor in IE 5.5 I have a poor friend who, somehow, gotten the Content Advsior enabled on her IE 5.5 (Windows 98). Sadly, it blocks all pages that don't have a rating. The MS Knowledge Base just says 'phone technical support. She can't afford that. Does anybody know the registry settings so it can be wiped or something similar? Microsoft Outlook - one, big, macro virus portal.
Post #23,520 by bepatient 1/8/02 1:39:32 PM Reply	Re: Content Advisor in IE 5.5 You should be able to disable this in the Internet Options. Tools->Options->Content You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! _{Laurie Anderson} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #23,522 by warmachine 1/8/02 2:11:11 PM Reply	Except for the supervisor password I forgot to mention that she has no idea what the supervisor password could be. She's tried her normal set of passwords. Hence, she can't disable it. Microsoft Outlook - one, big, macro virus portal.
Post #23,527 by Yendor 1/8/02 2:37:02 PM Reply	RRR? Can your friend uninstall and reinstall IE? Or get a new(er) version or something? Perhaps going to 98Lite will uninstall it, then uninstall 98Lite (if she's using 98 in the first place), then reinstall it? Grasping at straws... -YendorMike "The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by the skeptics or the cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need people who dream of things that never were." - John F. Kennedy
Post #23,577 by wharris2 1/8/02 7:45:58 PM Reply	Supervisor password? Is she using some locked-down system? That may be the problem, not the internet system. You could do a web search on password recovery, I know I've run programs that revealed supposedly (but laughably) encrypted Windows passwords. "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." -- Donald Knuth
Post #23,644 by scoenye 1/9/02 1:21:38 PM Reply	Not necessarily We've had some NT boxes at work where an "upgrade" of IE 4 to IE 5 caused IE to ask for the "Windows" password to unlock previously cached form fill-ins, etc. The catch is that the user's NT domain password couldn't unlock it. Neither could the local admin, or the domain admin. The users in question can't remember ever defining a password, so we had no clue what it was looking for. In the end, we got around it by deleting everything out of the IE 5 directories that didn't look like it came with IE 5. Unfortunately, I don't think that'll be of much help in this case.
Post #23,560 by Meerkat 1/8/02 6:12:50 PM Reply	The obvious (though probably not helpful) answer: Don't run IE. On and on and on and on, and on and on and on goes John.
Post #23,590 by andread 1/8/02 8:42:08 PM Reply	Re: Content Advisor in IE 5.5 when it happened at work I gave up and formatted good luck with anything if there is a password inplace A Play I Some Music w/ Papa Andy Saturday 8 PM - 11 PM ET All Night Rewind 11 PM - 5 PM Reggae, African and Caribbean Music [link\|http://wxxe.org\|http://wxxe.org]
Post #23,648 by scoenye 1/9/02 1:55:03 PM Reply	Found this on Usenet - use at own risk... Open the registry editor and browse to the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \\ SOFTWARE \\ MICROSOFT \\ WINDOWS \\ CURRENTVERSION \\ POLICIES \\ RATINGS Click on the Key (folder) named Ratings in the left pane of Regedit. In the right pane, you will see a binary value named key that has a hexadecimal string that represents the content advisor password in encrypted form. Right-click on this value and choose Delete. Exit the registry editor. Now you need to open Windows Explorer and delete the file C:\\WINDOWS\\SYSTEM\\RATINGS.POL. Once the registry value and the file have been removed, reboot your computer. Now, if you open Internet Explorer and go to Tools/Internet Options and click the Content Advisor tab, you'll see that the Settings button is now grayed out and the Enable button is visible. It is as if content advisor were never enabled. Make sure you have backups before starting...
Post #23,656 by bepatient 1/9/02 3:34:29 PM Reply	Looks like it'll work You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! _{Laurie Anderson} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #23,741 by warmachine 1/10/02 8:43:52 AM Reply	Problem solved! Microsoft Outlook - one, big, macro virus portal.
Post #23,766 by Andrew Grygus 1/10/02 11:57:24 AM Reply	Microsoft's amazing security strikes again . . But in their defense, who beyond the age of 16 would have time to find that registry entry? [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #23,836 by inthane-chan 1/10/02 10:02:43 PM Reply	By the way... This is well-known inside a certain company - but it's not supposed to be released outside of said company. Oh, well. :) "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

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