What is the matter?
You want to view a web site that needs to run scripts to function well. However, running of scripts is disabled in the security zone in which the web site resides. This page explains how to enable running of scripts.
What should I do?
Follow the steps below. Click on a step for a screenshot or more information
- In Internet Explorer click: Tools >Internet Options. A new window named 'Internet Options' will open.
The window 'Internet Options' will open.
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In the window 'Internet Options' click tab 'Security'.
- Note in which Security Zone the web site you view runs.
At the top of the section 'Security' is a row of icons of Security zones: "Internet", "Local intranet", "Trusted sites" and "Restricted sites". The zone that is selected is the Zone in which the viewed web site runs, usually the 'Internet Zone' or the 'Trusted Sites' zone.
This is the zone you will be doing settings for in the following steps. Be sure you don't change this zone, else your settings will have no effect.
Note: if you run the web site from a CD, from an USB device or from a copy on the hard disk of your computer, the zone may be incorrectly indicated. Read more...
- Click the button 'Custom Level'. A new window named 'Security Settings' will appear.
- Go to the entry 'Scripting', sub-entry 'Active scripting' (quite at the bottom of the list).
- Select 'Enable'.
- In the window 'Security Settings' click OK. (Confirm the warning)
If a warning appears "Are you sure you want to change the security settings for this zone", confirm by clicking 'Yes'.
The window 'Security Settings' will now close.
- Finally in the window 'Internet options' click OK. You are ready.
The window "Internet Options" will close.
- Check if it solved the problem.
Again try to run the web site. If necessary refresh the page or additionally shut down and restart the browser (=e.g. Internet Explorer). If the problem is not yet solved, return to the page you came from, or to the CASK FAQ main page and check other problem causes.
Background
To create interactivity and to respond with some intelligence to the user's input a computer programme needs a programming language. On web pages the de facto standard is JavaScript.
Although JavaScript generally is considered to be safe; errors in the browser or the Operating System might be exploited by malicious programmes to perform undesired operations on your computer. For this reason, on highly sensitive networks (e.g. within financial, medical, judicial or military institutions) running of script might have been disabled as a security measure. Of course you also might have disabled scripting yourself.
Although JavaScript generally is considered to be safe; errors in the browser or the Operating System might be exploited by malicious programmes to perform undesired operations on your computer. For this reason, on highly sensitive networks (e.g. within financial, medical, judicial or military institutions) running of script might have been disabled as a security measure. Of course you also might have disabled scripting yourself.
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