Restricted sites magically added to IE6

[Guest]

I've found a whole list of sites in my IE6 > Security > Restricted Sites box,
but I didn't add them. Does IE6 automatically include a list of certain
restricted sites by default, or might my anti-spyware software have added the
sites without me knowing it?

 

[Alan Edwards]

IE6 doesn't do that but some anti-spyware does.
Spybot perhaps?

....Alan

 

[antioch]

IE6 doesn't do that but some anti-spyware does.
Spybot perhaps?

...Alan

Hi Alan
That is interesting - I have noticed quite a few in mine - wondered how they
got there on their own - I don't have spybot - could MS antispyware have put
them there(the beta1 not Defender) or maybe Ad-Aware?
Rgds
Antioch

 

[Alan Edwards]

I have had MSAS beta 1 at some stage on this machine and I don't have
them. I don't know if Ad-Aware adds them.


Try here:
Adding unwanted sites to the Internet Explorer Restricted Zone
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/restricted.htm

....Alan

 

[antioch]

Probably AdAware - MSAS perhaps was not that clever ;-)
Thanks for the info.
Antioch

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the reply. I did install Spybot and AdAware some time ago, maybe
one or both of them is responsible. Although nowadays I use MS
AntiSpyware/Windows Defender anyway.

 

[Gary Smith]

Spyware Blaster definitely does this, and I suspect that other
anti-spyware products may also do it.