From: Mike '/m' 


I configured Opera to put a checkbox on the toolbar that enables or
disables plug-ins.  I run with plug-ins disabled, and enable them only
rarely.  I run without plug-ins mostly to prevent Flash stuff from running.
 Flash now stores cookie-like data on your hard disk.
http://www.bestflashanimationsite.com/tutorials/4/

Additionally, Opera doesn't do Active-X.   I consider that to be a
feature of Opera.

Active-X is evil.

 /m

On Wed, 24 May 2006 06:57:45 +0300, "Antti Kurenniemi"
 wrote:

>I find it sad. By now, anyone with half a brain should've pretty much dumped
>ActiveX (and Flash) from websites. I guess the key here is "with half a
>brain"...
>
>
>Antti Kurenniemi
>
>"Geo"  wrote in message
news:4473c60c{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Does anyone but me find it funny that I have to click
"NO" to two activeX
>> control to view the articles about security?
>>
>> Geo.
>>
>> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
>> news:4473a075$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1966009,00.asp
>>>
>>> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1965042,00.asp
>>>
>>> Symantec's DeepSight team said the exploit successfully executes
>>> shellcode
>>> when it is processed by Microsoft Word 2003. The malicious file caused
>>> Microsoft Word 2000 to crash, but shellcode execution did not occur.
>>>
>>> As a temporary mitigation method, Symantec is recommending
that Microsoft
>>> Word document e-mail attachments be blocked at the network perimeter.
>>> "Furthermore, extreme caution should be exercised while processing
>> Microsoft
>>> Word attachments received as an unexpected e-mail
Attachment," company
>>> officials said.
>>>
>>> This looks like something that was being aimed at industrial and
>>> defense/intelligence espionage by the Chinese commies.
>>>
>>> Gary
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>

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