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Two thoughts:

(1) Confirm that you are using the chrome folder in the active profile through Help > Troubleshooting Information as described above; and

(2) Make sure you have not set your options/preferences to override page settings. Just let userContent.css do the work.

Perhaps this was the limitation on its success:

While BLADE is highly successful in thwarting drive-by download attempts, the development team admits that BLADE will not prevent social engineering attacks. Internet users are still the weakest link in the security chain, they said.

“BLADE requires a user’s browser to be configured to require explicit consent before executable files are downloaded, so if this option is disabled by the user, then BLADE will not be able to protect that user’s Web surfing activities,” Lee said.

I’m not familiar with that feature, so I’m not sure what has gone wrong there.

Regarding crashing out of Word, if you have Word set to create Autorecovery save files, then when you restart Word, you should be offered the option to open and save the last backup Word made. When you close a document normally, these files are flushed, so if you haven’t crashed Word before, you might not have seen that dialog.

Word also might have created some temp files containing intermediate changes from your last save of the document. These might be in the same folder as the document you were working on, or in the last folder you used during the current Word session, or in your [My] Documents folder. It can be a little unpredictable when Word would clean up these files, so if you can find them before you terminate Word, that probably would be best.

Windows sometimes hides files from you, so in looking for .tmp and .asd files, it is best to turn on viewing of hidden files. How you do this varies between Windows 2000/XP and Windows Vista/7. In 2000/XP, use My Computer or Windows Explorer: Tools > Folder Options > View tab. In Vista/7, use Organize > Folder and Search options > View tab.

I can replicate what you’re describing, but I don’t know the solution.

One question that I have always had with macros in word is how do I control where actions are done. In excel I can just say ‘activecell’ or range(“A1”) … but how do I do the same sort of thing in word?

Word also has Ranges. The most obvious ones are the body content and each of the headers and footers. The selection also can be addressed as a range, each paragraph is a range, the contents of a bookmark (Word’s equivalent of a named range) are a range, and so on. But I’m not sure that will help in this case…

It would not surprise me if the makers of those antispyware products were well aware of this one and had made a decision not to ring any alarm bells. Vendors often do not classify monitoring tools as spyware if the software is designed to require users to click through a (non-deceptive) license agreement or otherwise give affirmative consent to install it. This kind of exception puts a premium on securing physical access to your computer (and of course preventing unauthorized access from the internet) so that such undetected software doesn’t get installed.

Could you create a batch file or script that launches an MP3, and then use the Windows Task Scheduler to play it?

At the office, we sent print jobs to a copier over the network. This copier also is used to scan files and email them or save them on a network share. Unlike a personal printer on a USB cable under your desk, there certainly is the potential for mischief with a privileged, networked device.

Try using Mailwasher to select which senders you want on you friends list and spammers to the blacklist. You can also bounce the spam within Mailwasher.

For the reasons described in other posts in this thread, do NOT bounce mail from Mailwasher. Most likely you will be tormenting an innocent person whose address was forged by the spammer.

On one website (TrendSecure.com) it says, “If your e-mail software has the ability to automatically execute JavaScript, Word macros, or other executable code contained in or attached to a message, you should disable this feature.” Would that be the rational behind just reading the email, even if you know better than to click any links or open attachments?

In Outlook 98-2003, setting Outlook to open mail in the Restricted Sites zone rather than the Internet zone will disable those types of active content. At some point, this became the default. Unfortunately, users (or malware) could reduce the security of the Restricted Sites zone in IE’s options (or the Windows registry), so this is not an airtight scheme.

In Outlook 2007-2010, the HTML rendering engine no longer is capable of displaying those types of content, so the zone setting has been removed. While security vulnerabilities could exist in Outlook (or should I say, could be discovered and exploited before they are patched), the design of the software is sound.

I still use FrontPage 2003 for all my web work. It may be old, but it is like an old shoe, it feels very good. I even write PHP code in it.

If you are using the code view rather than the WYSIWYG features, you can easily work around the proprietary code that FP was designed to generate. Not everyone is prepared to dive in to that depth.

Was there any movement on this?

Did you try the WP font links in the other thread?

Was there any movement on this?

Did you try the links regarding WP fonts?

There is an email filtering program called Benign (B9) which can strip out many of the nasties which may be contained in a HTML email, while still leaving it mostly readable in HTML format.

For anyone interested, it’s $30.

Product info: http://www.firetrust.com/en/products/benign (the makers of MailWasher)

Has anyone tried it?

You should able to control the Send/Receive schedule for any kind of mailbox, POP, IMAP, or Exchange. I believe they all use the same Send/Receive Group dialog.

As for reverting, yes, that makes sense. You might want to copy the IMAP Inbox to a fresh PST just in case it isn’t all retrieved when you re-setup the account as a POP account.

According to David Pogue, clicking on unsubscribe links is now pretty reliable. See his Sept. 1 blog in the New York Times: http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/01/rethinking-the-never-unsubscribe-rule-for-spam/

He recommends that if you received mail through Constant Contact, a company that many small businesses use to manage their customer emails, you can trust the “Safe Unsubscribe” button. And there are other legitimate mass mailing companies that respect your wishes. But there still are too many “fake” unsubscribe links to recommend just clicking anything.