Best thing to do is to go to Microsoft and search for Active X
or ActiveX. http://www.microsoft.com/com/tech/activex.asp for
example. It's a much exploited portion of Windows and has
numerous security patches due to these exploits. If you see an
Active X warning on a webpage or in an email, chances are it's
something bad that's trying to do something harmful to your HD,
or has the potential for doing harm. Some warnings though are
benign.
Whether or not one receives any warnings is dependent on
numerous things. Among them, Active X updates and patches and
anti-malware software running which can prevent harmful Active
X exploitation. You should have SpyBot ("Immunization" area)
and SpywareBlaster installed to keep you safer from AX
exploits, and get the ActiveX update patches from the M$ update
site.
-Clint
God Bless
Clint Hamilton, Owner
http://OrpheusComputing.com )
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lori Reding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hello,
I was wondering if anyone knew what Active X is. I am on
another mailing
list that shares stationeries and tags, and there are two
people on the list
whose messages come through that give me an error message,
saying I can't
display Active X on my system. What is Active X?
One of the people's emails does not ALWAYS show that error, and
she is a
personal friend of mine for a zillion years. The other one is
a stranger,
and hers always come up with the error. Neither of them have a
clue how to
fix it.
I could not find any setting on my computer, email or web
browser that says
Active X or anything like it, to change, to prevent this. Or
do I even want
to? The list is an Incredimail sharing list, but I do NOT
have, nor do I
WANT Incredimail on my system. I just save the graphics and
make my own
stationeries from them.
I have a HP AMD Athlon, 2.08 GHz, 448MB RAM, running XP.
Thank you for any help!
Lori
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