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  3. January 2007

Re: Is Active X safe?

Booth Martin wrote:

For some reason, probably bigotry, I have convinced myself that allowing 
Active X controls to run is a bad idea.  So I don't.  But it dawns on me 
that after several years, maybe MS has got it right and I am just being 
silly.


To be honest, I'm not sure anymore.

At one time, I was of the opinion that Active X controls were one of the
easiest ways for someone to penetrate your system.

As a matter of ethics, I've switched to Firefox for 99% of my browsing
... so active X controls are no longer a part of my world.

david

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