[Asked to allow clipboard access when opening email]

colinito · 7th December 2007

Hello,

I am using Windows XP Professional + SP2

I open an e-mail in Hotmail. In the e-mail is a link to a site which I have linked / clicked to quite often.

Now, when I click the link, a notice comes up with "Windows" at the top and the words - " do you want windows to allow you to paste information from your clipboard" with a Yes and a No option.

No matter whether I click the yes, no or the little white cross in the red background at the top right corner, nothing happens and the computer is frozen. I have to use the Windows Task Master to end the page task, which loses me the site!

I have looked under the advanced tab in internet options but can not find a heading referring to this option and / or how to stop it.

(The option of not clicking on the link - is not an option!)

Any assistance would be gratefully received

Thanks in advance,

Colinito

**Admin.** · 7th December 2007

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**PeteC** · 7th December 2007

colinito

This is as close as I can get to your problem ....

Disable Allow This Webpage to Access Your Clipboard Pop-Up Warning Message in IE7

thornsoft · 8th December 2007

Colinto,
Your e-mail is opening a page that has some evil javascript. Since you're using web-based e-mail, this is entirely possible. It's the same as visiting a web page with the clipboard javascript exploit. I have an explanation of this, plus links to some technical discussions and examples, at my ClipBoardExtender blog.
http://www.clipboardextender.com/gen...your-clipboard
I'll update that blog entry with a link back here, and a note about how it's spreading into e-mail. It's an interesting, but disturbing development!

--
Chris

**PeteC** · 8th December 2007

From a PM ....

Hello PeteC,
many thanks for bothering to answer my question! I have checked out all the linmks that you provided and they appear to be very helpful. I don't understand much, but I have gained this much -
Firstly, I don't have IE7, so I presume that is why the option about IE7 does not appear.
I checked out the Java (it took ages to discover how to get the details!, I copy them here for you, if they have any use then I would accept your advice!

Java Plug-in 1.6.0_03
Using JRE version 1.6.0_03 Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM
User home directory = C:\Documents and Settings\Colin

----------------------------------------------------
c: clear console window
f: finalize objects on finalization queue
g: garbage collect
h: display this help message
l: dump classloader list
m: print memory usage
o: trigger logging
p: reload proxy configuration
q: hide console
r: reload policy configuration
s: dump system and deployment properties
t: dump thread list
v: dump thread stack
x: clear classloader cache
0-5: set trace level to <n>

Other than that, I have no knowledge about the technical side of computers, and have found this by 'accident' - and thanks to you!