IE7 Security Warnings From pages Using Content Encryption

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Cerebral Believer

Hi folks,

I am a student web designer, and have a few sites. i use a commercially
available program called HTML protector to encrypt my pages (or parts of
them). I have previewd my pages in IE6, Firefox, and Netscape and have no
security problems. However, recently I received a response from someone who
visitied my site, he complained that IE7 warns him that my site is trying to
access his clipboard. I downloaded IE7 and tried to replicate this, and yes
the message "Do you want to allow this website to access you Clipboard?"
does appear, and not only that, it keeps appearing whether you click "Yes"
or "No". Has anyone else had similar issues using this browser?

I would like to report this issue to Microsoft, because I don't think
content encrytion of a page poses a security risk. I also don't think their
browser is supposed to work as it does in this situation, as the only way I
could stop the alert/confirm box from repeatedly displaying and asking the
same question was to go to Task Manager and End Process.

I have done a test page stripping out the other JavaScript I have used on my
pages at http://www.futurebydesign-music.com/htmlprot/test.html , this page
isn't malicious, but people who view the page with IE7 may think that it has
malicious content in it.

Anyone know a good way to raise this issue with Microsoft?

Regards,
C.B.
 
Cerebral Believer said:
Hi folks,

I am a student web designer, and have a few sites. i use a commercially
available program called HTML protector to encrypt my pages (or parts of
them). I have previewd my pages in IE6, Firefox, and Netscape and have no
security problems. However, recently I received a response from someone
who visitied my site, he complained that IE7 warns him that my site is
trying to access his clipboard. I downloaded IE7 and tried to replicate
this, and yes the message "Do you want to allow this website to access you
Clipboard?" does appear, and not only that, it keeps appearing whether you
click "Yes" or "No". Has anyone else had similar issues using this
browser?

I would like to report this issue to Microsoft, because I don't think
content encrytion of a page poses a security risk. I also don't think
their browser is supposed to work as it does in this situation, as the
only way I could stop the alert/confirm box from repeatedly displaying and
asking the same question was to go to Task Manager and End Process.

I have done a test page stripping out the other JavaScript I have used on
my pages at http://www.futurebydesign-music.com/htmlprot/test.html , this
page isn't malicious, but people who view the page with IE7 may think that
it has malicious content in it.

Anyone know a good way to raise this issue with Microsoft?

Regards,
C.B.
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Hello CB
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