Warning window - ActiveX

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Sid Knee

(Win2K) For security reasons, I have ActiveX disabled in IE.

Mostly, this is no big loss .... the major problem for me is not a loss
of functionality at various websites but the persistent pop-up window
from IE informing me that Active-X is turned off (yeah, I know) and some
site content may not be available (yeah, I know). Unfortunately, it is
not one of those windows with a "do not show this again" checkbox.

I can't find any way to turn this off and it gets *really* annoying ...
if I'd wanted to know each time, I could have set Active-X to "prompt"
instead of "disable".

Am I missing something? Is there a way to stop this? Or am I stuck with
the choice of either enabling ActiveX against my wishes or putting up
with a continual nag?
 
Add those sites to the trusted zone, then the activex can run and you see no
messages without dropping your security on sites you don't know.

Charlie
 
Maybe I wasn't clear. It's not the ActiveX sites that I want to see.
It's the darned warning window that I don't want to see. (In fact, I
*can* see those sites ... disabling ActiveX seems to make little
practical difference in most cases. It's just that annoying warning
window *every* time and I have to close it before the page will load -
minus the ASctiveX).

I do have ActiveX enabled for trusted sites but disabled for general
internet sites (and of course for restricted sites). The problem is that
the majority of sites (90%?) use some form of ActiveX so the warning
window is always popping up.

The options I seem to have are:

1. Enable ActiveX for all general internet sites as well as trusted
sites... defeats the object of having the disable option in the first place.

2. Add every site where I get the warning window to trusted sites ...
unmanageable, insecure and defeats the object of just about everything.

3. Find a way to turn off the persistent warning (hence the question here).

4. Put up with the persistent warning window and hope that MS eventually
realise that the lack of a "do not show this window again" is a bug. But
it's really, really annoying (and IE is already at version 6 (7?)
without a bugfix)

5. Find an alternative browser that will give me this same security
without making me pay the penalty. Since there doesn't seem to be any
other soulution I'm currently looking into this.
 
A lot of people use FireFox as an alternative, no harm in trying that, but
yes I was aware of the problem and yes that was the most secure solution. It
has not hurt me any to have Activex enabled in the internet zone provided
that it's only SIGNED ActiveX. Do not allow unsigned to download or allow
scripting of ActiveX not marked as safe.

There is a utility that will add trusted and restricted zone items to your
IE tools menu which makes the job easier if you are interested. It says IE 5
but has worked with everything I've tried it on so far. You can find that
here.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/previous/webaccess/pwrtwks.mspx
 
Thanks, Charlie



Charlie said:
A lot of people use FireFox as an alternative, no harm in trying that, but
yes I was aware of the problem and yes that was the most secure solution. It
has not hurt me any to have Activex enabled in the internet zone provided
that it's only SIGNED ActiveX. Do not allow unsigned to download or allow
scripting of ActiveX not marked as safe.

There is a utility that will add trusted and restricted zone items to your
IE tools menu which makes the job easier if you are interested. It says IE 5
but has worked with everything I've tried it on so far. You can find that
here.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/previous/webaccess/pwrtwks.mspx
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