Site wants MS Office CDs

08-11-2007

"ded" <> wrote in message news:f9l5lv$i55$...
>
> "Joe" <> wrote in message
> news:UBnvi.49165$ k...
>>
>> Could someone 'test' this link for me?
>>
>> www.kic.me.uk
>>
>> What happens when I click it is this......
>>
>> The homepage opens and then a messaga pops up telling me it needs to
>> install something from the MS Office CDs, which I don't have.
>>
>> Does anybody know why this is happening?
>>
>> Cheers.
>> Joe.
>>
>
>
> The site loads fine for me in IE and FF, there are no pop-ups concerning
> plug-ins or ActiveX etc.
>
> What exactly happens when you click on the link - assuming it is IE you
> are using? What version of IE?
>
> Could it be a Windows automatic Update that is overlaying and seeking
> a file from MS Office?
>
> Is it only with this site that you get the pop-up?
>
> What exactly is the wording of the pop up? The file that it is seeking
> and it directs you to install a MS Office CD, post full details and we
> will
> look it up, it maybe possible to download whatever the required file is
> from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/S...displaylang=en
>
> This is not uncommon with OEM pre-installed MS software, auto update
> may prompt for a non existant installation disk, though normally segments
> can be downloaded and the update directed to the download etc, though I
> can't figure why that site would cause a prompt? Fonts maybe?
> Or it could a conflict with an older version of IE?
> Post details of the exact wording of the message, OS, and version of IE
> Also your installation of OE is a bit out of date...When did you last
> update
> your version of Windows/IE/OE?
>
>
>

Thanks everyone.

It appears the site is trying to load something from a CD as it says
"Preparing to install MS Office features from CD-ROM drive E:". It then says
"CD-ROM Drive is not available". (The actual drive is okay though).
I think it looks like it's trying to install fonts...'from what these
replies have said. It also says "Error1706".

The site however does 'not' ask me to allow installation of any AX. Does
that mean I have it already? Can I uninstall it?
I don't know much about AX...'is it harmful?

Joe.

08-11-2007

"Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <> wrote in message
news:Mgpvi.419078$...

>
> BTW, why would anyone want to visit that horrible web site?

Erm.....'I have to take the photos for that horrible site tomorrow. lol.

Joe.

P.S. It is pretty ugly I have to admit, but I didn't write it. Mainly coz I
couldn't anyway. I don't know html.

08-11-2007

Joe wrote:
>
> Could someone 'test' this link for me?
>
> www.kic.me.uk
>
> What happens when I click it is this......
>
> The homepage opens and then a messaga pops up telling me it needs to install
> something from the MS Office CDs, which I don't have.

Doesn't matter, any site that 'demands" that you have office is NOT a
good site to visit....

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08-11-2007

Joe wrote:
> Could someone 'test' this link for me?
>
> www.kic.me.uk
>
> What happens when I click it is this......
>
> The homepage opens and then a messaga pops up telling me it needs to install
> something from the MS Office CDs, which I don't have.
>
> Does anybody know why this is happening?
>
> Cheers.
> Joe.
>
>
>

Nothing apparently bad on the website:
Using http://web-sniffer.net/

<html>
<head>
<meta name="Author" content="uk2.net">
<meta name="ROBOTS" CONTENT="ALL">
<meta name="description" content="Kilsyths annual free carnival attracts
5,000 people to the Colzium estate between Glasgow and Stirling, Scotland">
<meta name="keywords"
content="kilsyth,international,carnival,festival,m usic,august,14th,lanarkshire,events,glasgow,free
entry,family,samba,latin,jazz,rock,colzium,drums,d ance,asian,african,scottish
">
<title>Kilsyth International Carnival</title>
</head>
<frameset cols="100%,*" border="0">
<frame src="http://www.paperclip.org.uk/carnival.htm" name="uk2.net">
<noframes>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="1;
URL=http://www.paperclip.org.uk/carnival.htm">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" link="#000000" vlink="#000000"
alink="#000000">
<font face="Arial"><a
href="http://www.paperclip.org.uk/carnival.htm">Kilsyth International
Carnival</a></font>
</body>
</noframes>
</frameset>
</html>

08-11-2007

Bada bing Plato <|@|.|> bada bang:
> Joe wrote:
>>
>> Could someone 'test' this link for me?
>>
>> www.kic.me.uk
>>
>> What happens when I click it is this......
>>
>> The homepage opens and then a messaga pops up telling me it needs to install
>> something from the MS Office CDs, which I don't have.
>
> Doesn't matter, any site that 'demands" that you have office is NOT a
> good site to visit....
>

I was able to view this site with Firefox on Linux with no
problem, so it doesn't 'demand' that you have MS Office.
However, the ugliness of the site *and* the generated source code
behind it are more than enough reason to run to the nearest
eye-wash sattion.

That said, I don't think it is an ActiveX issue, but it might
have to do with Office being detected, but not up to the page's
standards. It's probably IE that is asking for help rendering
the site.

Mike "too ugly for my browser?" Yetto
--
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government ought to be to trust no man living with power to
endanger the public liberty."
- John Adams

08-11-2007

"Mike Yetto" <> wrote in message
news:.. .
> Bada bing Plato <|@|.|> bada bang:
>> Joe wrote:
>>>
>>> Could someone 'test' this link for me?
>>>
>>> www.kic.me.uk
>>>
>>> What happens when I click it is this......
>>>
>>> The homepage opens and then a messaga pops up telling me it needs to
>>> install
>>> something from the MS Office CDs, which I don't have.
>>
>> Doesn't matter, any site that 'demands" that you have office is NOT a
>> good site to visit....
>>
>
> I was able to view this site with Firefox on Linux with no
> problem, so it doesn't 'demand' that you have MS Office.
> However, the ugliness of the site *and* the generated source code
> behind it are more than enough reason to run to the nearest
> eye-wash sattion.
>
> That said, I don't think it is an ActiveX issue, but it might
> have to do with Office being detected, but not up to the page's
> standards. It's probably IE that is asking for help rendering
> the site.
>
> Mike "too ugly for my browser?" Yetto

There is no doubt that all who have viewed have found it to be one
seriously ugly and poorly designed site, but I have to admit that I am
quite intriqued by the headlining act, "David Sneddon and the Peatbog
Faeries" and also on the bill are the "Kinch Mirage belly dancers" and
a disco pimp! And part of the site is in Arabic, Urdu and I think a
Chinese dialect too? All in the Scottish highlands and just £2 entry.

08-12-2007

"Joe" wrote in message
news:UBnvi.49165$ k...
>
> Could someone 'test' this link for me?
>
> www.kic.me.uk
>
> What happens when I click it is this......
>
> The homepage opens and then a messaga pops up telling me it needs to
> install something from the MS Office CDs, which I don't have.
>
> Does anybody know why this is happening?

The site calls out for several fonts:

Arial
Geneva
Helvetica
SunSans
Tahoma
Trebuchet MS
Verdana

In the Fonts applet in Control Panel, are those fonts listed? While
Office 2000 installs those fonts
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/837463/en-us), maybe your particular
Word install didn't include them. I didn't find a download link from
Microsoft to get the Office fonts, but I hear but cannot verify that the
Office 2007 compatibility Pack includes fonts
(http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...isplaylang=en).

If the site renders under the Internet security zone, is that zone
configured to enable font downloads? You might try setting it to Prompt
you when a site wants to download a new font (I already have those fonts
so no download is needed so no prompting, either). I set font download
in IE to Disabled since I'm not interested in getting Chinese fonts
because I don't read Chinese.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/826712
https://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/li...staller_topic6
So I guess an ActiveX control could request an advertised component of
MS-Office.

08-12-2007

"Joe" <> wrote:

>The site however does 'not' ask me to allow installation of any AX. Does
>that mean I have it already? Can I uninstall it?
>I don't know much about AX...'is it harmful?

Control panel/Internet Options/advanced
activeX or now called Active Content.

"An ActiveX control can be an extremely insecure way to provide a
feature. Because it is a Component Object Model (COM) object, it can
do anything the user can do from that computer. It can read from and
write to the registry, and it has access to the local file system.
From the moment a user downloads an ActiveX control, the control may
be vulnerable to attack because any Web application on the Internet
can repurpose it, that is, use the control for its own ends whether
sincere or malicious."
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Aa752035.aspx

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08-12-2007

Mike Yetto wrote:
> Bada bing Plato <|@|.|> bada bang:
>> Joe wrote:
>>>
>>> Could someone 'test' this link for me?
>>>
>>> www.kic.me.uk
>>>
>>> What happens when I click it is this......
>>>
>>> The homepage opens and then a messaga pops up telling me it needs to install
>>> something from the MS Office CDs, which I don't have.
>>
>> Doesn't matter, any site that 'demands" that you have office is NOT a
>> good site to visit....
>>
>
> I was able to view this site with Firefox on Linux with no
> problem, so it doesn't 'demand' that you have MS Office.
> However, the ugliness of the site *and* the generated source code
> behind it are more than enough reason to run to the nearest
> eye-wash sattion.
>
> That said, I don't think it is an ActiveX issue, but it might
> have to do with Office being detected, but not up to the page's
> standards. It's probably IE that is asking for help rendering
> the site.

Okay here in lynx.

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Except in Thunderbird, which can't filter that well.
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08-12-2007

In article <UBnvi.49165$> , Joe
<> wrote:

> Could someone 'test' this link for me?
>
> www.kic.me.uk
>
> What happens when I click it is this......
>
> The homepage opens and then a messaga pops up telling me it needs to install
> something from the MS Office CDs, which I don't have.
>
> Does anybody know why this is happening?

My first guess is that the page tries to open a document of MS Office
type, which you don't have.
No problem.
Go download OpenOffice or NeoOffice or one of the other free package
suites. They're great, and they can open almost anything made in a
Microsoft program (the rest of the kinds no one should be using.)

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