Re: Why no photos?

From: Gregory Phillips (gregphil@attbi.com)
Date: 07/26/02 

From: Gregory Phillips <gregphil@attbi.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 06:52:12 GMT

That is probably a good thing. Often sites trick you into executing some
sort of a script or active -X page to download a picture. While this could
be benign, it is definitely not necessary and makes you wonder what else
the executable program is doing beside supplying the picture. You should
NEVER allow something to execute on your machine if you don't fully trust
the source. Most firewalls block "active content" from untrusted sources
by default. One typical "benign" use of this is to use javascript to open a
new pop-up window to display the requested picture or movie clip (CNN
does this in sidebars a lot)

On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 20:32:41 +0100, "Experiment5" <harry.mythpig@ntlworld.com> wrote:

>Having just installed the Norton firewall ( I get attacked twice a day
>apparently), every thing works fine except that it often stops me
>downloading .jpg files. There is no alert and nothing is logged. I just
>get a box with a red X in it. wassup?
>
>
>Come home to a REAL bass. Visit the site, see what I do, download the
>sounds
>www.meggastuf.freeserve.co.uk
> 

---
Gregory Phillips       gregphil@attbi.com      Seattle, Washington, USA

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