Disabling ADODB.Stream could break applications ?

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Marlon Brown said:
Does the regkey change suggested by KB article
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=870669

has potential to 'break' legitimate applications that use ADODB.Stream to save files to locally ? Just wondering... not sure if
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decent applications are using that feature these days.


As far as I am concerned THERE ARE NO LEGITAMITE APPLICATIONS THAT USE THIS FEATURE!
Shame on Microsoft for allowing any website operator to read/write any file on my system and call it a feature!
I think it is time for some people in charge of these things at microsoft to find employment elsewhere, and have
some people with a few ounces of sense start designing the products that they ship out the door.
 
decent applications are using that feature these days.


As far as I am concerned THERE ARE NO LEGITAMITE APPLICATIONS THAT USE THIS FEATURE!
Shame on Microsoft for allowing any website operator to read/write any file on my system and call it a feature!
I think it is time for some people in charge of these things at microsoft to find employment elsewhere, and have
some people with a few ounces of sense start designing the products that they ship out the door.
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Not every website is on the internet. Intranets often make use of
these types of features, and Microsoft does support corporate networks
I believe.

I'm assuming from your outrage that you don't use Microsoft products
anymore, correct?

Jeff
 
Ok, so I guess this will demand an extensive testing then.


save files to locally ? Just wondering... not sure if decent applications
are using that feature these days.
 
Also, a website does not even need to be involved
for an application to use Ado, not that this is any sort
of excuse for IE's failure to contain properly.
 
Extensive only if you have web-based apps that use Ado,
as they then might have used this to persist info locally.
 
BeamGuy said:
decent applications are using that feature these days.


As far as I am concerned THERE ARE NO LEGITAMITE APPLICATIONS THAT
USE THIS FEATURE!
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Then you can't get out and about much.

There is a downside to this patch, it is likely to be more of an issue for
corporate users with "web based applications", but everyone needs to decide
for themselves which is the bigger problem.
 
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