I reinstalled windows recently and for some weird reason all the .gif animations stored on my computer prior to the reinstallation work properly, but any .gif animations in all my web browsers stay completely static. I have no frickin idea how to remedy this. Can anybody help me?
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Anonymous2006-02-27 21:11
Tools-->Internet Options-->Advance tab
Scroll down to the Multimedia section, make sure there's a check mark next to " Play animations in web pages". If not, check it.
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Anonymous2006-02-28 0:31
Firefox has a property for it in about:config as well. Animation got disabled on mine for some reason as well once, even though I would never set it myself.
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Anonymous2006-02-28 2:21
crap nevermind, it was zone alarm security suite.
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Anonymous2006-02-28 2:51
Now that's counterintuitive.
Since when do firewalls rewrite gifs?
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Anonymous2006-02-28 3:50
since someone found out you can embed executable code in gifs and all microsoft products since dos 3.0 will parse and run them
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Anonymous2006-02-28 3:51
>>5
Since they must be bloated with bugs/features >_<
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Anonymous2006-02-28 5:43
>>6
That's the job of a virus scanner, not a firewall.
And using stack overflows in an image to infect a machine is ridiculously hit and miss. By the time the firewall is updated (that's if the firewall didn't get the stack smashed itself lol), the image software maker probably updated as well.