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strange error bar when accessing my site

juanp

2007-10-24, 6:19 pm

Hi,

my name is juan, I design the site www.tobesecurity.com
when someone navigates to the site. internet explorer prompts that the
site wants to run ietag.dll ... I tried to search for this dll in the
source code of the page so I can delete it but I didnt found it.
I want to remove this dll stuff. how can I do it ? or what is it?

thanks a lot!!

Juan

Brendan Gillatt

2007-10-24, 6:19 pm

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juanp wrote:
> Hi,
>
> my name is juan, I design the site www.tobesecurity.com
> when someone navigates to the site. internet explorer prompts that the
> site wants to run ietag.dll ... I tried to search for this dll in the
> source code of the page so I can delete it but I didnt found it.
> I want to remove this dll stuff. how can I do it ? or what is it?
>
> thanks a lot!!
>
> Juan
>

You designed that site in MS Office, hence the 140 validation errors.
Start over with Notepad and I'm sure all your woes will soon be gone.

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Beauregard T. Shagnasty

2007-10-24, 6:19 pm

juanp wrote:

> my name is juan, I design the site www.tobesecurity.com when someone
> navigates to the site. internet explorer prompts that the site wants
> to run ietag.dll ... I tried to search for this dll in the source
> code of the page so I can delete it but I didnt found it. I want to
> remove this dll stuff. how can I do it ? or what is it?

You're selling security and you can't figure this out? Somehow, that is
amusing.

This is probably your answer (I don't have IE available):

<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"
xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word"
xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">

[etc.]

Look into this as well:

<http://validator.w3.org/check?verbo...security.com%2F>
This page is not Valid (no Doctype found)!
Result: Failed validation, 140 Errors

Is that supposed to be a menu on the left? If so, it doesn't work. No
links:

<p style='line-height:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:
Arial;color:#FFBA00;letter-spacing:1.2pt'>Security Consulting
<o:p></o:p></span></p>

Your page does not fit in my browser window.

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Jim Moe

2007-10-24, 6:19 pm

On 10/24/07 12:33 pm, juanp wrote:
>
> my name is juan, I design the site www.tobesecurity.com
> when someone navigates to the site. internet explorer prompts that the
> site wants to run ietag.dll ... I tried to search for this dll in the
> source code of the page so I can delete it but I didnt found it.
> I want to remove this dll stuff. how can I do it ? or what is it?
>
(I can only marvel that MS goes to such lengths to make their products
hacker heavens.)

The HTML was generated by MS Word v11 and later modified by Dreamweaver.
All of the horrid code created by Word is still there, plus extra crud
added by DW, including a MS IE proprietary method for defining special
fonts. I suspect the latter is where the request for the DLL arises.
De-crufting a Word generated site is a messy business. It's worth it
since the size will be about 1/2 its current one, and work mostly the same
in all browsers without opening a giant security hole.

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Bergamot

2007-10-26, 6:20 pm

Jim Moe wrote:
>
> De-crufting a Word generated site is a messy business. It's worth it
> since the size will be about 1/2 its current one,

Probably more like 1/10 its current size. :)

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