Re: iexplore automatically downloads exe files without prompting

From: Al (nospam@nospam.com)
Date: 01/31/03 

From: "Al" <nospam@nospam.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 15:19:20 -0500

Take a look on IE at Tools->Internet Options->Content->Publishers-> and see
if you have trusted any software publishers. I think that will cause
downloads to run automatically.

AL

"Steve" <sbarr49271@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:06a601c2c963$9c053f10$8af82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA03...
> For some reason Iexplore downloads exe files from internet
> without prompting to save... does this in background to
> temporary internet files dir. Other download extentions
> prompt to save ??? If i understand correctly the function
> for exe files to prompt is hardcoded. Can't seem to get
> to the bottom of this one???

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