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Judesman
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June 15, 2011
Question

Advert does not display in Virginmedia Homepage with IE9

  • June 15, 2011
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Flashplayer is installed and seems to be working but in Virginmedia.com Homepage there is a blank space where there should be an advert using IE9. Using Firefox the advert displays as it should. If I open Ancestry.co.uk in IE9 I get one of those yellow warning bars telling me "Add-on for this web site failed to run" and once again there is a blank space where there should be an advert that again displays as it should in Firefox.

The odd thing is that Flashplayer seems to be working and is enabled in Manage Add-ons. I really don't want to have to use Firefox and all my settings in Internet Options seem to be OK. (My daughter doesn't have any problems with her computer and we compared settings that seem to be the same).

Could this be a Flashplayer problem or does anyone have any suggestions please?

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    JudesmanAuthor
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    June 15, 2011

    I think I have solved the problem. SpywareBlaster is blocking the adverts. If I disable SpywareBlaster all is well.  All I have to do now is find which of the 14393 entries is causing the problem.

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    Anonymous
    June 15, 2011

    Hi, Any addons in your IE9 browser from SpywareBlaster would be the first thing to Disable and see which one is causing an issue. I'd disable all of them that are there. Then enable one at a time and check your website.

    If you don't find that this is an issue, then take a look at this ActiveX Filtering that is a new feature with IE9. When the ActiveX Filtering is ON, it will block a site. You can read about it here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/internet-explorer/products/ie-9/features/activex-filtering

    And here: http://www.mydigitallife.info/how-to-disable-or-enable-turn-off-or-on-activex-filtering-in-ie9/

    To turn on ActiveX Filtering
    In Internet Explorer, click the Tools button, point to Safety, and then click ActiveX Filtering.

    To turn off ActiveX Filtering on a specific website
    In Internet Explorer, click the Filter button in the Address bar, and then click Turn off ActiveX Filtering.

    To turn off ActiveX Filtering on all websites
    In Internet Explorer, click the Tools button, point to Safety, and then click ActiveX Filtering.

    See if that is helpful.

    eidnolb

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    JudesmanAuthor
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    June 16, 2011

    Thank you very much eidnolb I will look into this, and thanks for the links. SpywareBlaster is the problem. I like your idea of enabling 14393 entries one at a time! Although I think this is a recent problem. Your help is appreciated. It might be an idea to remove SpywareBlaster and rely on the Activex Filtering.

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