dalem29,

I have left Active Scripting enabled on my XP system for the past 32 months with no problem. If a user has an active antivirus program, a firewall, is current with Windows Critical Updates, checks routinely for spyware, and is careful about what programs are given permission to install themselves the risk to the computer is manageable.

Thanks Denny: I keep this thing updated almost religiously with Norton Internet Security with Anti Virus set to auto update and check the manual Live Update about twice a week for the larger downloads, and run Ad-aware, Spybot Search and Destroy, and Spyware Blaster daily and check for updates daily on these. Ad-aware especially seems to update almost daily. And Windows updates are set to prompt me when a critical update is available. That hopefully should take care of most of the problems. A little bit of carelessness on my part when activating this 4600 for the first time gave a bad case of the Blaster worm. What a pain to deal with!!

I will go ahead and leave them enabled

You can disable active scripting for the Internet zone.

Just put Dell into your "trusted" zone and it should work just fine.

However, it is a pain to put sites that require active scripting into the trusted zone all of the time.