"Your internet security settings prevented one or more files from being opened"?

Question

Okay so yesterday i was trying to download photoshop portable and one of the tutorials said download uTorrent, so i downloaded uTorrent, but then the tutorial said to download something from thepiratebay, but my broadband has it blocked so I didn't do it in the end. I didn't delete the uTorrent and I scanned for viruses when I finally found one that worked and there was nothing.. I opened my laptop this morning and it said 'Preparing your desktop' which it never does and when it loaded it gave me this message ""Your internet security settings prevented one or more files from being opened" and all of my wallpaper, colour settings, other settings have been restored to the original.. So I thought it could've been uTorrent so I went to uninstall it and it gave me that message again, so I looked for a solution online and I don't have the registry key they're talking about and i've resetted IE but that didn't work, I thought since I don't even use IE i'd delete it so I went to delete that and the same message appeared, HELP?

Answer 1

It sounds like you have an awful lot of corruption in your profile already.



best solution: wipe the machine clean, erase/format the hard disk, and return everything to factory new.

install the programs you need, (remove any you don't need) and get all the updates.

install & run antivirus, then move all your data back from your backups.



not-so-great: it may just be a bad user profile.

create another user, log in as that user. See if that other user has as many troubles.

if not.. or at least if less.. then copy/move all your files from your old profile to the new user you created. (everything under /users/yourname in Win7 - including hidden & system files)

that should get most stuff to work, and put all your data where you need it.



In any case - all this corruption means that there is already a problem on your hard disk. the kinds of programs you are downloading are more likely than average to have viruses.

this stuff could be happening because the machine is overheating (check airflow, clear any dustbunnies)..

or from electrical problems (brownouts -low voltage as well as lightning and high-voltage spikes)

.. or old age on your hard disk.

* 3 years begins old age on an average consumer hard drive.



If you cannot pin down a cause, then it could be some combination (viruses)(heat)(age)(electrical flutter) , and possibly user mistakes. - forcing a shut down will also damage your hard disk.





good luck!

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Your Internet Security Settings

Answer 4

Your Internet Security Settings Prevented