Re: Anyone Post-SP2 hack shdoclc.dll to get rid of "Your current security settings prohibit running ActiveX controls on this page."

Don Taylor From: wrote:
> As more and more net vandals dream up new ideas I keep cranking
> up security settings, this time turning off ActiveX scripting.
>
> That results in an unending flood of popups:
>
> Your current security settings prohibit running ActiveX controls
> on this page. As a result, the page may not display correctly.
>
> That's true, that was the point of turning it off.
>
> Searching the web for ways to turn this off turns up people who
> have searched for years to get rid of this and not just lower
> security.
>
> Some folks claim this is hard coded into shdoclc.dll and that you
> can hack this file to get rid of the warning.
>
> Then I find
> http://www.newbie.org/common/turnoff_activex.html
> "Disable" ActiveX instead of "Prompt" warning pop-ups (Advanced
> Users ONLY)
>
> In the c:\windows\system directory is a file called shdoclc.dll
>
> Copy that file into another directory since it cannot be modified
> while Windows is running.
>
> Using Resource Hacker You can open that file which you copied into
> another directory and search along the String table to delete the
> line to prevent those warnings.
>
> That claims to kill the silly warning. shdoclc.dll is still part
> of Windows and the warning message is still in there, the file has
> just been moved into system32 now.
>
> Anyone else post SP2 successfully followed these directions and hacked
> this file to get rid of the endless stream of these pop up warnings?
> And I suppose this will need to have the copy in dllcache fixed too.
>
> Thank you

I just block ActiveX through my firewall, so it gets blocked long before
it to the MS warning.

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