IE Content Advisor Approved Sites

First, I'd like to note that the protection provided by IE's Conten Provider has more holes than a slice of Swiss cheese. (Click here for a short write-up on it.) The limitations imposed by such a feature built into the browser is one of the reasons Firefox does not include it. However, if you wish to continue with Content Advisor, here are a few possible fixes:

* Click here for a complete list of anti-malware utilities. Select a couple, including one antivirus, at least one online antivirus, and a few antispyware utilities, and run the scans one at a time.

* Close out of Internet Explorer. Open the registry by going start->run->regedit, then navigate to the following: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE->Software->Microsoft->Windows->
CurrentVersion->policies->ratings->PICSRules->.default->0->PRPolicy. Once there, you have an option. Each of the subfolders will be named in order starting with 0, and each one contains the allow/block information about a different entry in Content Advisor. You can either delete the entire PRPolicy folder by right-clicking on it and selecting delete, or you can browse each one of the numbered subfolders until you find the one with the 'blank website' and selete that folder. How many sites are listed will probably be the ultimate decision maker of if it's worth searching each one or simply recreating the list later. You can then close the Registry Editor, relaunch IE, and verify the change have been made.

* If you're running Windows XP and IE6, click here for instructions on performing a repair installation of IE and Outlook Express. Otherwise post back wtith your OS and IE versions.

Hope this helps,
John