druddle

When i go to the Tools, Internet Options menu of IE, I get a message saying "This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator."

It is a home PC running WinXP Pro. This has only started happening this evening. The PC was on all day burning a CD, and it is connected to Broadband permanently. It has Zonealarm running on medium security setting (now its high !!).

I havent changed anything, and my user has administrator rights. Logged in as administrator and couldnt see any changes i could make to my account to do this. It sounds like someone has run a nice script to do this. Any ideas where i should look to put it back ?

Dave

druddle

Done a bit of digging and it could be related to my inetres.adm file.

Gedi

Not saying you haven't been hacked, but the problem you mention will have nothing to do with a hacker.

If this is the only reason you have for thinking you have been hacked, set your mind at ease.

However, this is not to say your machine hasn't been compromised. Zone Alarm will only protect you to a certain degree (which isn't very high)

druddle

I am the only person who has used the PC this week and it has been left on all day most days ????

Dave

P1Fanatic

I had this once the other day. Went back and tried again 2 secs later and it worked fine???

Simon.

class_A

Your regular username should not be in the Administrators group. That's just asking for trouble. Only log on with Admin rights when you need to make changes.

druddle

I found some info on MS.com about this. Knowledge Base Article 216283.

I am gonna take all the other users out of the Admin group and only log in as Admin when i have to

Dave

druddle

Thats fixed it !! Looked in regedit for hkey_current_user/software/policies/microsoft/internet explorer/restrictions and set it back to zero.

Dave