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Brian:
There have been several weaknesses identified and patches released over the
years relating to malicious ActiveX and Java scripts. You should run Start |
Settings | Windows Update regularly to ensure you have all of Microsoft's
security patches installed.
Personally, I have all ActiveX and Java scripting disabled for Outlook
Express, and I have Internet Explorer set to confirm scripting. I decline to
accept scripts from sites I do not inherently trust. Disabling it will
sometimes result in web pages not creating properly or, in some cases, at all.
If you trust the site and really want the information, you can just refresh
the web page and accept the ActiveX script. Kind of a pain, but what's a guy
to do.
If you're interested in learning more, Georgi Guninski's site can be found at
http://www.guninski.com/
Regards.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Haviland" <BHaviland@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 9:14 AM
Subject: OT viruses and Outlook 5.5
> Article about a weakness in 5.5 that might allow someone to take over your
> computer from the outside! Yikes! (8^o)
> http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-3786758.html?tag=st.ne.1002.bgif.ni
> Question for the cognoscenti: should one disable all the "ActiveX" options
> as well as active scripting further down on the list. In what way might
> disabling these things cause problems? Would I get a message saying a given
> download or whatever needed to have one of these functions so that I could
> turn it on temporarily?
> Thanks,
> Brian
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