Active X

Hi, it's my first posting. I'm not a programmer/analyst, although I am an interested amateur. (I did study Assembler language, once, and still find that helps with understanding computers.)
My problem is this: I keep getting "Active X Controls security set too high," etc., messages on certain websites, ironically one of them is Microsoft's own update page. I've tried to reset everything in the trusted sites section, etc., and I installed Sun System's new java application - this has made no difference. Now I find that those Java files in the .bin folder are all screwed up - dates are out of whack. I've checked my system clock and that's ok, as far as I can detect from a quick glance - those settings seem accurate to me.

Any help with this would be nice, since I've exhausted all other possibilities other than re-installing my system, which incidentally is windows 98 se, on a Dell xps-500 machine. I keep a clean machine, have made numerous tweaks and enhancements. I hope those haven't turned to my detrement now.

Thanks.

MJL54

Go into internet options and go to the security tab. That will give you the option to turn down the active x secutiry but I wouldn't recommend it.