Simon Tepper wrote:

Same problem as a lot of people, it seems ....

1) How do you 'open your mail in a zone that allows ActiveX ' and
what are the implications of that?

The Security Zones section on ToolsOptionsSecurity.
The implications are that you could receive an HTML message containing
malicious ActiveX and allow it to run.

2) What are the implications of lowering the settings for the
Restricted zone (assuming that that solves the problem)? What other
problems might then result?

The implications are the same. I've had some luck adding the string
"about:internet" to my Restricted zone.
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Brian Tillman