Re: How to prevent my information from being accessed by webpages

From: comphelp@xxxxxxxxx (Todd H.)
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:54:07 -0600

"Sebastian G." <seppi@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

Todd H. wrote:

I agree with Sebastian though, IE6 is likely the bigger issue here.
You should reconsider that choice if you are concerned with security.
ActiveX is just way too pourous.

The problem is that you can't actually disable ActiveX due to numerous
flaws in IE's implementation.

Yup.

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Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/
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