Re: How to Disbale ActiveX

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"cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)" <cquirkenews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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> On 10 Jun 2005 12:35:48 -0400, nits <UseLinkToEmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> >Can any one please tell me how to disable ActiveX controls .
>
> The most reliable way to suppress all ActiveX is to use a browser
> engine that doesn't support ActiveX. AFAIK Firefox qualifies, but the
> new Netscape 8 doesn't - it uses both Gekko and IE engines.
>
> Or do you want to disable *particular* ActiveX controls? If so, you
> may be able to set a "kill bit" to disable them, if they are known. I
> don't know how to do that manually; instead, I use Spyware Blaster
> that blacklists and kills a number of known bad controls, a list that
> is updated regularly. If I wanted to make an exception for a blocked
> control, Spyware Blaster allows these to be unchecked.
>
> Otherwise, IE's Tools, Options lets you block/prompt/allow ActiveX
> "marked safe for scripting" vs. not marked as such, or differentiate
> on whether they are signed or not. You can set such detail for IE's
> Trusted, Restricted and Internet zones.
>
> There's no control over what an ActiveX control may be allowed to do -
> once trusted, it's got a blank cheque to do what it likes. So there's
> no fine-grained control such as Firefiox offers over Javascript; allow
> to change images but not context menus, that sort of thing.
>
> This has always been a criticism of ActiveX - and a valid one, IMO -
> and it's quite revealing about MS's attitude to such matters. You are
> supposed to trust an identity to do whatever it likes (or not), rather
> than interact with a stranger and limit what they can do.
>
> This is all very well in a closed network, where a proven identity can
> be compared to a known template of expectations, but it's useless on
> the Internet, where "by design" you interact with strangers. Perhaps
> the hope is that you'll be more inclined to trust big corporations
> that speak your language, and thus maintain the hegemony?
>
>
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